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BETHLEHEM (Ma'an) -- A group of settlers installed mobile homes on private Palestinian land in the Bethlehem town of al-Khader on Thursday, a local activist said.

Farmers spotted a group of settlers setting up 10 mobile homes under the protection of the Israeli army, Ahmad Salah told Ma'an.

Settlers have been repeatedly targeting the Bethlehem town in order to seize land and infrastructure for nearby settlements, he added.

On Monday, settlers appropriated over 50 dunams of land in the northern and southern West Bank, local officials said.

All Jewish-only settlements in the occupied West Bank are illegal under international law. Israel distinguishes between illegal settlements it has approved and illegal outposts which were never granted official authorization.
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BETHLEHEM, (PIC)-- Israeli settlers continued to seize more Palestinian lands in the West Bank to expand and build more settlements.

Local sources said that the settlers have set up dozens of mobile homes under the Israeli occupation army’s protection in Baten Al-Maassi area in Al-Khader village, south of Bethlehem, in order to expand Tamar settlement which was established at the beginning of the Aqsa Intifada.

In another context, Ahmad Salah, the coordinator of the popular committee against settlements in Al-Khader town, said that a number of settlers set up power poles and lines into the trench which they dug a few days ago in the land owned by Suleiman Osman Sabih's sons located in Ein Al-Kassis west of the town.

He called on the international human rights organizations and institutions to stop the Israeli settlement project in Al-Khader town.