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IOF seizes tractor expels farmer from his own land in Bethlehem

Saturday 14-November-2020

The Israeli occupation forces (IOF) on Friday confiscated an agricultural tractor and forced a Palestinian farmer to leave his land in Tuqu town east of Bethlehem.

Chief of the town municipality Tayseer Abu Mifreh said that Israeli soldiers stormed al-Arabiya area in the north of Tuqu confiscated a tractor and forced Mahmoud Hasan to leave his land at gunpoint.

Abu Mifreh added that the farmer was working his own land and possesses documents proving his ownership of the property.

In a separate incident a horde of Jewish settlers on the same day stole 20 sheep from al-Tayba town in Ramallah.

According to local sources the sheep which belong to a local resident were grazing in an eastern area of the town when the settlers stole them.

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