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NABLUS (Ma'an) -- Israeli authorities issued orders late Tuesday to confiscate 675 dunams of land in Nablus, having issued similar orders earlier in the day to confiscate 800 acres of land in a western area of the city, a PA official said.

Ghassan Doughlas, who monitors settlement activity in the northern West Bank, told Ma'an that the Israeli decision will confiscate land from Awarta and Burin villages in the center and east of Nablus.

Confiscation orders were delivered to the villages late on Tuesday, Doughlas said, adding that the land set to be annexed consists mainly of olive trees.

Israeli forces handed confiscation orders to several farmers in the Nablus villages of Beit Iba, al-Naqura, Zawatta and Ijnisinya on Tuesday, which will see 800 acres of land annexed in order to build an Israeli bypass road.

The dunam, a measurement unit dating back to the Ottoman empire, is equivalent to 1,000 square meters.

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NABLUS, September 12, 2012 (WAFA) – The Israeli authorities Thursday informed Awarta and Burin’s villages’ councils in Nablus city of its decision to seize 675 dunums of their private-owned Palestinian land, according to a local activist.

Ghassan Douglas, in charge of settlements file at the Palestinian Authority in the northern part of the West Bank, told WAFA that Israeli forces handed Awarta’s village council, south east of Nablus, and Burin village council, south of Nablus, of their decision to seize 675 of the villages’ land.

Douglas warned of the Israeli policy of confiscating the Palestinian land, calling upon international community and organizations to intervene and stop this policy.

Meanwhile, the Israeli authorities Tuesday informed four villages’ councils, north of Nablus, of its decision to seize 800 dunums of private-owned Palestinian land.

T.R./F.R.

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