SALFIT (PIC)– The Israeli occupation authority has notified the municipal council of Eskaka village east of Salfit that 169 dunums of the village’s land would be confiscated the municipality chairman Samir Haris said.
He said that the confiscated land is located south north and west of the village adding that the land would be annexed to Ar’il settlement and used in building a section of the racist separation wall surrounding it.
He said that the confiscation would allow the replacement of the barbed wire that surrounds the settlement the biggest in the province with the cement wall structure.
Salfit is the target of a rabid settlement campaign that saw the number of settlements surpasses the number of the province’s villages and towns.
