A group of Jewish settlers protected by Israeli occupation forces (IOF) razed on Tuesday a Palestinian-owned land and uprooted dozens of olive trees in al-Khalil’s town of Tarqomiya in the southern West Bank.
The local anti-settlement activist Mohammed Abu Dabbous revealed that the settlers razed the land to pave a settler-only road in the area.
He affirmed that settlers from the illegal Israeli settlement of Tellem bulldozed a land belonging to Ghareeb family and uprooted 50 olive trees in the Khilet Salameh area in the town of Tarqomiya.
Meanwhile Jewish settler groups launched calls via social media platforms to allow “the forthwith return of settlers” to the evacuated illegal settlement of Homesh.
Homesh built on the lands of Burqa town north of Nablus was evacuated in 2005. However it was not handed to Palestinians amid warnings of being turned into a military outpost.
