TULKARM, February 15, 2018 (WAFA) – The Israeli military banned on Thursday Palestinian farmers from the village of Kufr Sour, south of Tulkarm in the north of the West Bank, from reaching their lands located behind the apartheid barrier built on village land and workers from reaching their workplaces inside Israel, according to locals.

They told WAFA that the army closed the metal gate in the fence the army has built in that area to separate it from the illegal settlement of Salit built on Kufr Sour and Kufr Jammal land and which separates the two villages from most of their agricultural farms.

They said soldiers manning the gate refused to open it to allow them to reach their land and ordered them to return to their village.

The fence and settlement left more than 4,000 dunums (4,000,000 square meters) of fertile agricultural land separated from the villages.

When Israel builds a settlement in the occupied territories in includes with it thousands of dunums of rich Palestinian land that becomes off to its true owners.

M.K.