HEBRON, December 13, 2016 (WAFA) – As part of their efforts to Palestinian presence in the South Hebron hills, Israeli forces on Tuesday seized a caravan used as a medical clinic in the village of al-Markaz in Masafer Yatta, a Bedouin congregation south of Hebron, according to local sources.

Soldiers raided the village and seized the caravan provided by the Italian Cooperation as part of a European humanitarian assistance to Palestinians living in difficult conditions in what is known as Area C of the West Bank, which is under full Israeli military control.

Palestinian residents in al-Markaz and nearby al-Halaweh villages used the caravan as a medical clinic to serve the local Palestinian communities.

Residents told WAFA that Israel does not want them to have a life in Masafer Yatta in order to leave it for the benefit of expanding nearby Israeli settlements.

The European said Israel had destroyed hundreds of projects provided as humanitarian assistance to the Palestinians in Area C.

M.N./M.K.