Eyewitnesses from Bruqin town west of Salfit city on Saturday reported that new housing units and infrastructure are being built for the Israeli settlement of Brukhin in the northern area of the town.
They told the PIC reporter that Brukhin is expanding at the expense of the Palestinian farmers’ lands from which they are constantly expelled by the settlement’s guards.
Palestinian researcher Khalid Ma’ali said that Israel’s settlement expansion projects are in full swing in the villages and towns of Salfit province adding that there are 25 Israeli settlements stretching over lands belonging to 18 Palestinian residential communities in Salfit.
Ma’ali pointed out that Brukhin was established in 1999 as a small outpost before the head of central command at the Israeli occupation army Nitzan Alon signed an order to turn it into an “official settlement” administered by the Regional Settlement Council.
