Israeli settlers have once again leveled Palestinian land south of Hebron using bulldozers, the Palestinian news agency Wafa reported.
According to the agency’s correspondent, a group of armed settlers began clearing land in the village of Khirbet Deir Razih to prepare it for the expansion of a settlement established in December last year.
Late last year, settlers flattened around 40 hectares of land owned by the Amro family, cutting down trees, destroying crops, and building a three-kilometer road.
Since the outbreak of the war in Gaza, the expansion of settlements—considered illegal under international law—has accelerated.
Excluding East Jerusalem, it is estimated that at least 490,000 Israeli settlers live in the West Bank alongside nearly three million Palestinians.
In June, the Israeli government approved the confiscation of 12.7 square kilometers of occupied West Bank land, marking the largest such seizure in the past three decades.
