The Israeli occupation forces (IOF) on Monday bulldozed and seized vast tracts of Palestinian land in Kafr ad-Deik town west of Salfit in favor of settlement expansion.
Abdulnaser Ahmad the owner of the land said that he was surprised to find that the IOF had razed his land and set up a fence around it claiming that it is “state land”.
Ahmad affirmed that he has all the legal papers and documents which prove his ownership of the razed land.
He added that he is aware of the Israeli authorities’ attempt to seize the land to build new settlement units.
About 25 Jewish-only settlements are built on the lands of 18 Palestinian residential communities in Salfit province in the Occupied West Bank.
The Israeli government has recently okayed a plan to build new housing units to expand Brukhin settlement west of Salfit.
