The Israeli occupation forces (IOF) bulldozed on Friday agricultural lands in Daher al-Maleh village which is isolated behind the apartheid wall to the north of Yabad town in Jenin province for the purpose of constructing a road and a new section of the apartheid wall.
Head of Daher al-Maleh village council Omar al-Khatib said that the IOF bulldozers razed about 20 dunums of land planted with olives and tobacco in preparation for the construction of a road linking between Shaked settlement and the settlements of Tal Menashe and Hananit according to Wafa news agency.
Hussein al-Khatib a resident of the town said that they were left with no access to their lands in the northern area of the village pointing out that the Israeli bulldozers even tried to bulldoze the village’s cemetery.
Khatib explained that the IOF intend to build a new section of the apartheid wall north and east of the village that is adjacent to Shaked settlement adding that once the new section is built more than 1000 dunums of lands privately-owned by Palestinian citizens from Yabad and Nazlet Sheikh Zaid village will be confiscated.
