Israeli occupation forces embarked today on bulldozing Palestinian-owned lands in the village of Asira al-Qibliya, to the south of Nablus, and ordered confiscation of other lands in the nearby villages of Tell, Jit and Far’ata, according to local sources. Ghassan Daghlas, a local Palestinian activist, told WAFA that Israeli bulldozers embarked on razing Palestinian lands in the village of Asira al-Qibliya, a day after the occupying authorities razed lands in the neighboring villages of Burin and Deir el-Hatab. Meantime, Israeli occupation forces notified Palestinians in the villages of Tell, Jit and Far’ata, southwest of Nablus, of their confiscation of nearly 14.5 dunums of land in favor of expanding the colonial Israeli settlement outpost of Havat Gilad, nearby. Of note, colonial Israeli settlement activities in the occupied Palestinian territories are all illegal under international law, particularly the Fourth Geneva Convention which band the relocation of the occupying power’s civilian population to the land of the occupied.
Source: En – Palestine news & Information Agency – WAFA