Israeli occupation army breach Gaza’s southern border
KHAN YUNIS, The Palestinian farmers working on their land in Khuzaa town, east of the southern Gaza Strip city of Khan Yunis, were forced to leave their lands following an Israeli military breach of the border, according to Wafa News Agency.
Wafa Agency reporter said that, several Israeli military vehicles breached the southern Gaza borders and proceeded to level border area lands while shooting in the air causing panic among the farmers who were working on their land and forcing them to desert the area in fear for their life.
In an effort to create a buffer zone inside the besieged Gaza Strip, the Israeli military regularly breach the Gaza borders and level land in the area causing damage to agricultural land before returning to their bases inside Israel.
Israeli occupation authorities seize 5 dunums of Palestinian land in Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood in Al-Quds city
On the other hand, in Al-Quds, the Israeli occupation authorities seized 4700 square meters of Palestinian-owned land in the East Al-Quds (Jerusalem) neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah in favor of the Israeli municipality’s plan of establishing a park, today said Saleh Diab, an activist.
He told WAFA News Agency that, the Israeli High Court yesterday issued a decision that ordered the takeover of land owned by four families: Obeidat, Odeh, Jarallah, and Mansour, with the aim of turning it into a public park owned by the Israeli municipality of West Al-Quds (Jerusalem).
He added that the municipality first attempted to seize the land in 2016 but had failed at the time.
Kamal Obeidat, one of the owners, said in a telephone interview with WAFA Agency that, the decision to seize the land located near a hotel aims at increasing its area for construction from 18,000 to 36,000 square meters in favor of the Israeli municipality.
He added that, this issue has been deliberated in the courts for more than 20 years, explaining that the land was used as a parking lot for buses and other vehicles in preparation for turning it into a project for the benefit of Palestinians in East Jerusalem but now the municipality wants to take it over in order to use it for its illegal settlements.
Nada Haj Khider