Ahlul Bayt News Agency - Palestinian farmers from Qarawat Bani Hassan town, west of Salfit, has complained that Jewish settlers from Havat Yair settlement stole their land in an area known locally as Nuwaitef.
The farmers said in press remarks that the settlers justified the appropriation of their land that Nuwaitef is a nature reserve, where no one can use it for constructional or agricultural purposes.
For his part, specialist in settlement affairs Khaled Maali said that the Israeli occupation authority claims the area as a reserve not to protect the nature but to annex it gradually for the expansion of nearby settlements.
He affirmed that the Israeli nature protection authority destroys the nature through allowing the settlers to seize and destroy olive and forest trees in order to build more housing units in settlements, while preventing the Palestinians from reclaiming and cultivating their lands in Salfit and other occupied areas.
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