The Israeli occupation forces (IOF) on Saturday arrested a Palestinian citizen while he was working in his farmland in Shufa village in Tulkarem near the Israeli settlement Avni Hefetz.
Tahsin Hamed the detainee’s uncle said that the IOF soldiers stormed the land where his nephew Esam Hamed 33 was working and abducted him.
Tahsin Hamed said that the IOF soldiers regularly assault and arrest the Palestinian farmers whose lands are close to Avni Hefetz under the pretext that they “pose a threat” to the Israeli settlers living there.
He added that three years ago the IOF attacked his nephew’s farmland and destoryed its trees crops and greenhouses.
The Israeli authorities further are currently expanding the settlement which was built illegally on privately-owned Palestinian lands at the expense of vast tracts of farmland.
