Israeli forces embarked on razing a 40-dunum land near Idna town, to the west of Hebron, according to local sources.

Idna municipality told WAFA that by razing the said land, Israeli authorities intend to extract stones of the best quality to be used by Israeli-owned stone crushing plants.

This came only one day after the Israeli army razed 650 dunums of land owned by the Islamic Waqf Department al-Musaqara, an outskirt of Jericho

According to a report by Applied Research Institute (ARIJ), “the consecutive Israeli governments adopted a policy to acquire much of the West Bank lands to build and expand the Israeli settlements by employing different methods.”

It said that, “Since 1967, Israel utilized all the laws that were once running in this part of the land; at least the ones that it can make use of to justify its occupation in an attempt to legalize the various methods it uses to carry out its systematic policy to confiscate Palestinians’ lands to make it available for the occupation Army or/ and for the Israeli settlers.”

(WAFA)