The Israeli occupation forces on Monday confiscated dozens of dunums of Palestinian-owned land in Immatain town east of Qalqilya city.
Local sources told the PIC reporter that Israeli bulldozers escorted by a large Israeli force razed vast tracts of land in Immatain.
The Israeli forces had seized 1200 dunums of land in Immatain in favor of the expansion of Immanuel settlement in the southern area of the village.
Immanuel settlement was established in 1983 as an outpost on Deir Istiya lands with an area of 22 dunums. Over the past ten years it has been expanded to include more Palestinian farmlands in Deir Istiya Jinsafut and Immatain.
Covering an area of about 1240 dunums of confiscated Palestinian land Immanuel is today inhabited by 3200 Israeli settlers.
