The Israeli occupation forces leveled Palestinian lands west of Salfit province in the West Bank in favor of illegal settlement expansion.
Eyewitnesses told the PIC that Israeli bulldozers and excavators rolled into Salfit and razed Palestinian land tracts near the industrial zone of Israel’s Ariel settlement.
The move makes part of an Israeli plan to build new factories and expand old ones near the archaeological village of Kerkesh Batn al-Hamam and Haris village.
Researcher Khaled Maali sounded the alarm over the ecological damage and life-threatening diseases wrought by the factories built by the Israeli occupation authorities in the area.
He added that Ariel outpost is made up of industrial and residential areas. Three more industrial zones have also been built by the occupation authorities in Salfit.
Sometime earlier the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Gush Etzion Ariel Maaleh Adumim and Beit El settlement blocs are and will forever remain part and parcel of Israel.
