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Herd of Israeli settlers penetrates farmlands in Nablus
Israeli extremist settlers on Thursday razed Palestinian farmlands belonging to Sebastia and An-Naqura towns, northeast of Nablus, according to local sources.
Head of the Sebastia village council, Mohammad Azem, said that since the early morning hours a group of settlers launched on leveling an enormous tract of farmland, close to the Nablus-Jenin Road, to make room for the increase of the nearby Israeli settlement of Shavei Shomron.
He stated that the whole tract of land is the private property of the citizens, who has title deeds as proof of ownership.
More than 700,000 Israelis live in Jewish-only settlements across occupied East Jerusalem and the West Bank in violation of international law.
The number of Israeli settlers has almost tripled since the Oslo Accords of 1993 when settlers number estimated at 252,000. Illegal Israeli settlements have leaped from 144 to 515 in that time.
Israel’s nation-state law that passed last July said that building and strengthening settlements is a “national interest.”
