JENIN, September 27, 2017 (WAFA) – Israeli forces on Wednesday encircled an agricultural land with barbed wires near the town of Ya’bad, to the west of Jenin in the West Bank, according to local sources.
Witnesses told WAFA that Israeli forces encircled an agricultural land with barbed wires and cement cubes and prevented its owners from entering it. The land is close to illegal Dothan settlement, just two kilometers to the south of Ya’bad.
A recent report by Israeli rights group B’Tselem argued that under the guise of a "temporary military occupation," Israel has been "using the land as its own: robbing land, exploiting the area’s natural resources for its own benefit and establishing permanent settlements," estimating that Israel had dispossessed Palestinians from some 200,000 hectares (494,211 acres) of lands in the occupied Palestinian territory over the years.
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