JERUSALEM, March 7, 2025 (WAFA) – Israeli colonizers Friday set up tents on a tract of Palestinian land near Jaba‘ village, northeast of the occupied West Bank city of Jerusalem, according to a local source.
Sami Tawwam, head of the Jaba‘ Village Council, said that Israeli colonizers broke into the area of Sahel Jaba‘ (Jaba‘ plain), east of the village, and erected two tents to serve as a nucleus of a new colonial outpost.
He added that the assailants vandalized several olive trees and prevented the Palestinian landowners from reaching their farmlands.
He pointed out that colonizers have been attempting over the past two weeks to take over the lands making up the Sahel Jaba‘ to link it to the nearby colony of Adam.
Colonists’ violence against Palestinians and their property is routine in the West Bank and is rarely prosecuted by Israeli authorities.
Colonists’ violence includes property and mosque arsons, stone-throwing, uprooting of crops and olive trees, and attacks on vulnerable homes, among others.
Over 700,000 Israeli colonists are living in colonies in the West Bank and East Jerusalem in violation of international law.
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