Israeli Occupation Authorities (IOA) on Friday started the construction of 150 out of 900 settlement units in Avni Hafetz settlement outpost east of Tulkarem city in the northern West Bank.
Eyewitnesses told the PIC reporter that the construction site is located within Palestinian agricultural lands of Shofeh town southeast of Nablus city.
The IOA handed at a previous time land confiscation orders to Palestinian farmers in Shofeh town for the expansion of Avni Hafetz.
The seizure order stipulates the confiscation of land lots including a part of Khalet al-Sheikh Wadi Issa and al-Manzel areas.
