A group of Jewish settlers razed thousands of dunums of Palestinian lands in Kafr al-Dik and Deir Ballut villages west of Salfit on Saturday.
The mayor of Deir Ballut Yahya Mustafa affirmed that settlers’ bulldozers razed about 300 dunums of lands west of Kafr al-Dik and east of Deir Ballut.
The dredging operations aim at expanding the illegal Israeli settlements of Leshem Eli Zahav and Baduel he added.
According to the international law the West Bank and East Jerusalem are occupied territories and all Israeli settlement buildings on the land are illegal.
