The Israeli occupation forces (IOF) on Friday appropriated a Palestinian-owned agricultural land in Ya’bad town southeast of Jenin in the West Bank.
According to local sources an Israeli army officer phoned a Palestinian citizen from the family of Abu Bakr and notified him of a decision to seize 3.5 dunums of agricultural land belonging to him near a military checkpoint and the settlement of Mevo Dotan.
About one year ago the Israeli occupation army seized hundreds of dunums along the road between Jenin and Tulkarem deployed barbed wire around the area and declared it a closed military zone.