NABLUS, Saturday, July 13, 2024 (WAFA) – Israeli occupation forces today seized an excavator from the Yatma village, south of the occupied West Bank city of Nablus, according to a local source.
Head of Yatma Village Council, Ahmad Snawbar, said that the occupation forces confiscated an excavator while it was used in the construction of a road in the northeastern part of the village and held the driver for several hours.
He added that the Village Council was constructing the road to make it easier for the villagers to access their lands, located opposite to Jabal Sbeih, atop which the recently-legalized colonial outpost of Givat Eviatar is constructed.
Palestinians across Historic Palestine have been rising up against decades of Israeli settler- colonialism, apartheid and intensified Israeli land pillage of their land.
In almost a month in 2022, some eight Palestinians from Beita town were killed and over 620 others were injured while trying to oust the colonial settler outpost built atop Mount Sabih or Sbeih.
Seizing the hilltop represents a panoptical defensive tool as they would grant the Israeli occupation with a panoramic view over the Jordan Valley and the whole district of Nablus. This is why the Israeli occupation authorities have assigned them a place in its colonial expansion project.
The construction of the two colonial outposts atop Mount Sabih, south of Beita, and Mount Al-Arma, north of the town, besides to a bypass road to the west is an Israeli measure to push Palestinian villages and towns into crowded enclaves, ghettos, surrounded by walls, settlements and military installations, and disrupt their geographic contiguity with other parts of the West Bank.
The number of colonists living in Jewish-only colonies across occupied the West Bank, including Jerusalem, in violation of international law has jumped to over 700,000 and colonial settlement expansion has tripled since the signing of the Oslo Accords in 1993.
Israel’s nation-state law, passed in July 2018, enshrines Jewish supremacy, and states that building and strengthening the colonies is a “national interest.”
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