HEBRON, Thursday, January 4, 2023 (WAFA) – The Israeli occupation forces began constructing colonial roads on citizens’ lands in Hebron's Masafer Yatta.

Coordinator of the Popular and National Committees to Resist the Wall and Settlements, Ratib al-Jabour, said that the occupation forces are working to build new colonial roads and complete other roads at the expense of Palestinian lands in Masafer Yatta.

He explained that these roads are located between the areas of Al-Tha'la and Umm Al-Khair, east of Yatta, in order to connect the illegal Carmiel and Ma'on settlements, and another road between the Bnei Hefer settlement and the Birin area, northeast of Yatta, and a third road between the Otnael settlement, west of Yatta towards Khallet Al-Farra.

He pointed out that the occupation fired a heavy barrage of sound bombs and poisonous gas towards civilians in Al-Thaala area, east of Yatta, who were there to protest the construction of colonial roads in their lands.

In the same context, a colonist fired bullets at sheep herders from the Al-Mahaina family in the Labwaib area, east of Yatta, and detained their sheep, in an attempt to force them to leave their lands and pastures for the benefit of the colonists.

K.T.