Israeli bulldozers on Monday rolled into Khillet al-Nahla south of Bethlehem in a measure deemed to be a sign of a preplanned scheme of collective punishment against Palestinian farmers.
Palestinian locals raised concerns over Israeli attempts to bulldoze their cultivated lands in anticipation of their confiscation in favor of illegal settlement expansion.
Eye-witnesses said the assault comes in response to an anti-occupation stabbing attack carried out by a Palestinian youth near Etzion settlement which left an Israeli settler dead.
