HEBRON, February 7, 2012 (WAFA) – The Israeli authorities Tuesday informed a Palestinian family from Beit Ula, a town northwest of the southern West Bank city of Hebron, that it plans to expropriate about 10 dunums of their land and gave them 45 days to file an objection, according to one of the land owners.

Mohammad al-omla, said they found notices on their land put there by the Israeli authorities informing them that they should leave their land and remove everything on it because it will soon be expropriated.

The notices, he said, gave the farmers 45 days to file a complaint at Ofer military camp, near Ramallah, or else the army would evict them and force them to pay costs of their eviction.

He added that the Israeli authorities aim to force Palestinian farmers to leave their land in order to seize it for the benefit of expanding the Apartheid Wall and prevent urban expansion.

Israeli forces also confiscated a tractor used for agricultural purposes belonging to one of the town’s residents.

Coordinator of the popular committee against the wall, Isa al-Omla called upon the international community as well as human rights organizations to promptly move to stop the Israeli ongoing attacks against Palestinian farmers and their property and to condemn these Israeli measures that aim to evacuate the village’s land from its owners as a prelude to seize it.

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