Colonial Israeli settlers seized an agricultural tractor today, preventing Palestinian farmers from accessing their lands for olive harvesting in the Masafer Yatta region, south of Hebron in the occupied West Bank, according to local sources.

Meantime, colonial settlers dismantled three tents in the town of Al-Auja, north of Jericho in the occupied West Bank, stealing their contents.

Local sources reported that settlers took control of a tractor belonging to the Palestinian farmer Ishaq Al-Jabareen while he was plowing his land in the Sha’b al-Baten area in Masafer Yatta. Protected by the Israeli occupation army, the settlers obstructed farmers from reaching their fields for olive picking near the village.

In a separate incident in the town of Al-Auja, north of Jericho, a group of settlers removed three tents owned by a local resident, one of which was used for housing. Rashayda added that the settlers not only dismantled the tents but also vandalized and looted their contents.

Source: Palestine News a
nd Information Agency – WAFA