IOF force Palestinian to remove tent he used to shelter his 13-member family
Occupied West Bank (QNN)- Israeli occupation forces yesterday forced a Palestinian man from Khirbet al-Thaala hamlet in Masafer Yatta in the south of the occupied West Bank to remove a tent which he was using as a shelter to his 13-member family, local activist said.
Rateb al-Jabour, from the national and popular committee in the south of Hebron, told WAFA that forces raided the hamlet and forced the resident to remove the tent where he and his family of 13 people live, forcing them to live in the open.
He said the forces and the area’s illegal settlers do not want to see any Palestinians in that land in order to take it over for their settlement activity, particularly the expansion of the illegal Maon and Carmiel settlements.
Jabour said residents of the hamlet have papers proving ownership of the land, but that Israeli occupation does not take them into regard and persists in efforts to appropriate their lands and to displace them.
Israeli settlers violence against Palestinians and their property is routine in the occupied West Bank and is rarely prosecuted by Israeli occupation authorities.
There are over 700,000 Israeli settlers living in illegal settlements in the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem in violation of international law, particularly the Fourth Geneva Convention.
