Israeli settlers’ bulldozers on Monday morning started razing Palestinian-owned farmlands in Batn al-Hamam area west of Salfit city eyewitnesses said.
The witnesses told the PIC reporter that the industrial area of Ariel settlement is being expanded at the expense of fertile farmlands owned by Palestinian citizens in Salfit.
The Palestinian researcher Khaled Ma’ali said that many bulldozing operations are taking place in different villages and towns in Salfit in favor of settlement expansion projects.
Ma’ali stressed that the settlement expansion blatantly violates international humanitarian law which prohibits settlement and any construction activity by the occupying power on the territories it occupies.
