A Palestinian report has revealed that the Israeli occupation authority (IOA) started to carry out a major railway project aimed at linking its illegal settlements in the West Bank with the 1948 occupied territory (Israel).
According to a report released recently by the National Bureau for Defending Land the railway project will first link all West Bank settlements with each other and then link them all with cities in Israel. The project is expected to be completed in 2025.
The IOA already seized about 2000 dunums of Palestinian land for the project especially in the West Bank villages of Zawiya Mas-ha Biddya Sarta Kafr ad-Dik and Bruqin.
The project which includes 11 railway lines and 30 passenger stations will lead to the destruction of vast tracts of agricultural land and water resources in the annexed Palestinian areas.
