The Israeli occupation forces (IOF) on Wednesday confiscated a bulldozer being used by a Palestinian to reclaim agricultural lands in Aqraba town south of Nablus.
Anti-settlement activist Yousef Deiriya told Wafa news agency that the bulldozer was rehabilitating lands for agricultural purposes when the IOF stopped the driver and seized the vehicle under the pretext that it was working on “state lands”.
Israeli-claimed “state lands” in the West Bank are then often used as construction sites for Jewish-only settlements in violation of international law.
