The Israeli occupation authority (IOA) has embarked on expansion activities in the illegal settlement of El Matan west of Deir Istiya town in the West Bank province of Salfit.
Local eyewitnesses told the Palestinian Information Center (PIC) on Wednesday that the IOA annexed vast tracts of land in Wadi Qana area of Deir Istiya to construct new housing units as part of a plan to expand El Matan.
They affirmed that the settlement is being expanded silently into Wadi Qana away from the media and without informing the Palestinian landowners of the Israeli plan to build on their plots of land.
