HEBRON, May 26, 2013 (WAFA) –
Israeli forces Sunday razed Palestinian-owned land in the Hebron and Nablus
area under the pretext of “searching for ruins”, according to local sources.
The Popular Committee Coordinator in
Yatta Rateb al-Jabour told WAFA that Israeli bulldozers, protected by Israeli
forces, razed more than 10-dunums of agricultural land planted with crops and
belonging to three families in an area adjacent to the village of al-Tawani
village, east of Yatta in Hebron.
He said that the razing operations
conducted by Israeli forces under the pretext of searching for ruins come in
the framework of land theft for the benefit of settlement expansion.
Meanwhile, forces, accompanied by a
staff from the civil administration, surrounded an area in Al Luban ash
Sharqiya village, east of Nablus, and razed Palestinian-owned land, for the
second time in a week, under the same pretext, said the owner.
To be noted, this area has been
targeted by forces and settlers for the last couple of years in an aim to seize
the land for the benefit of settlement expansion.
T.R./F.R.
