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HEBRON, August 24, 2011 (WAFA) – Israeli bulldozers Wednesday razed 20 dunums of agricultural land planted with crops and confiscated irrigation networks in Al-Baqa lands, east of Hebron in the southern West Bank, according to local witnesses.

Sources said that Israeli bulldozers, under the protection of Israeli soldiers, civil administration and police razed about 20 dunums of lands belonging to a Palestinian family.

They added that this is the fourth time such an incident has taken place in Al Baqa in the last few months, with the aim of displacing farmers and seizing the land for the benefit of the Jewish settlements of Kiryat Arba and Kharsina.