Salfit Ma’an – Today, Wednesday, the occupation bulldozers began to bulldoze the lands of the citizens of the town of Derastiya in the Wadi Qana area, northwest of Salfit.

The mayor of Derastiya, Firas Dhiyab, said that the occupation bulldozers began bulldozing the citizens’ lands in the Al-Bassa area in Wadi Qana in preparation for fencing them according to priority information, noting that the occupation had delivered a notification to change the status of use of part of the Wadi Qana area from a natural reserve to public facilities and housing.

In turn, anti-settlement activist Nazmi Salman pointed out that the occupation bulldozers are bulldozing for the benefit of the ‘Yakir and Novim’ settlements, which are built on citizens’ lands, noting that the area in which the bulldozing work is taking place is considered central to the region and is considered an attraction for visitors from various regions, noting that this attack It comes as part of a series of ongoing settlement attacks targeting the Pales
tinian presence to force citizens to leave their lands and replace them with settlers in the Wadi Qana area, whose area is estimated at more than 10 thousand dunums, as the Israeli occupation declared it a natural protected area since 1983, and prevents the Palestinians who own the land from working in it. In return, he builds his settlements on it.

Source: Maan News Agency