The Israeli Occupation Authorities (IOA) approved on Wednesday a plan to widen Route 60 connecting the occupied West Bank districts of Jerusalem and al-Khalil.
Hasan Breijieh head of the Bethlehem office of Settlements and Wall Resistance Commission told WAFA that Israeli Minister of Transportation Yisrael Katz gave orders to start work on widening the route from its current two lanes to at least four lanes.
The decision he said means the Israeli government is going to seize thousands of dunums of Palestinian lands in al-Khader Beit Jala and al-Maasra in the Bethlehem district and Beit Ummar in the Hebron al-Khalil.
The road will be 100 meters wide and will take unspecified amount of land from several Palestinian towns and villages along the route he added.
