JERUSALEM: Colonists today fenced off a large tract of Palestinian-owned land in the Batn al-Hawa neighborhood in the town of Silwan, south of the occupied Jerusalem.

Local sources said that a group of colonists, heavily guarded by the Israeli occupation army and accompanied by bulldozers, fenced off the land with barbed wire as a prelude to take it over.

Meanwhile, Israeli occupation forces further detained a local resident after brutally assaulting and beating him up.

In a related context, the occupation forces raided the house of a local resident in Al-Thawri neighborhood in the town of Silwan, seized his cell phone and a sum of money.

The forces also inflected damage to the contents of the house during the raid.

Source: Palestine news and Information Agency – WAFA