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Israeli Colonizers Raze Palestinian-owned Land Near Nablus

22:37 Dec 11 2023 Khallet Hamad area in Jordan Valley, Qaryut (قريوت), Artas (أرطاس), and Qusra (قُصرة) and Migdalim (מִגְדָּלִים) settlement

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Scene near Nablus. Source: Screenshot Published by IMEMC News
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by IMEMC News
Dec 12, 2023

On Monday, illegal Israeli colonizers attempted to steal sheep in the northern Jordan Valley, stormed a water spring, and razed Palestinian-owned land near Nablus in the northern occupied West Bank.

Illegal Israeli colonizers attempted, on Monday afternoon, to steal dozens of sheep from a Palestinian citizen in the Khallet Hamad area in the northern Jordan Valley.

According to Aref Daraghma, a local human rights activist, a group of colonizers, under the full protection of Israeli forces, stole 40 sheep belonging to Hamid Rizq Abu Al-Zeit.

Local Palestinian residents confronted the settlers and managed to retrieve the livestock.

On Monday night, a group of armed Israeli colonizers invaded the water spring in the village of Qaryout, south of Nablus in the northern occupied West Bank.

According to Bashar Qaryouti, a local settlement resistance activist, a group of paramilitary settlers, under the full protection of Israeli soldiers, stormed the spring, opened fire with live ammunition at Palestinian-owned homes, and performed Talmudic rituals.

Meanwhile, on Monday night, settlers razed a large area of Palestinian-owned land in the town of Qusra, southeast of Nablus.

According to Fouad Hassan, a local settlement resistance activist, colonists, under army protection, bulldozed a vast area of land near the illegal “Migdalim” colony.

In related news, Israeli forces demolished a cave and razed an agricultural road used by Palestinian farmers to access their lands, in the village of Artas, southwest of Bethlehem in the southern occupied West Bank.

According to Hasan Breijiyya, the head of the Bethlehem office of the Wall & Colonization Resistance Commission, occupation forces accompanied by three large bulldozers, invaded Jabal Abu Zeid, south of the village, and demolished a cave.

Breijiyya added that bulldozers leveled an agricultural road, filled in a water well, and knocked down stone retaining walls.