SALFIT, Tuesday, October 31, 2023 (WAFA) - Israeli occupation bulldozers Tuesday uprooted 12 olive trees and continued to bulldoze hundreds of donums of agricultural land in the village of Farkha, southwest of Salfit.

Local sources told WAFA that the occupation bulldozers uprooted 12 olive trees owned by local resident Suleiman Rizkallah from the village of Farkha, as they continued to bulldoze hundreds of dunums of village land.

The head of the Farkha village council, Mustafa Hammad, explained that Israeli bulldozers from Al-Ras colonial outpost are continuing bulldozing for the third day in a row to implement a colonial plan and build a new road in Al-Batin area to connect it to Al-Matwi area northwest of the village, with the aim of facilitating the colonists’ access to these areas.

He pointed out that the construction of the road aims to seize and control hundreds of dunams for the benefit of establishing colonial projects, calling on the competent local, international and legal institutions to protect the region and support their efforts to preserve it from seizure.

Hammad stated that the area being bulldozed and seized by the occupation is approximately 1,400 dunams, noting that there is a water spring in it, covering 25-30% of the village’s water needs.

A number of Bedouin families live in the area, and the colonists are constantly pursuing them in an attempt to remove them from the place, he added.

K.T.