Settlers destroy agricultural crops, graze their livestock on private lands in Masafer Yatta

Israeli settlers, under the protection of the occupation forces, today destroyed agricultural crops and grazed their livestock in private Palestinian lands in Masafer Yatta, in the south of the occupied West Bank, Osama Makhamra, an anti-settlement activist, told WAFA that settlers from the illegal Havat Maon outpost released their sheep into agricultural crops in the villages of Maghayer al-Abeed and al-Tuba in Masafer Yatta causing damage to the wheat and barley crops, which extend over approximately 10 dunums. The settlers seized a water well owned by a resident in the village of al-Tuba and set up a tent near the homes by force of arms. Meanwhile, settlers uprooted dozens of trees and destroyed crops in the Buweira area east of Hebron. Landowner Sufian Tamimi said settlers from the illegal Har Sina settlement uprooted dozens of vineyards and sabotaged or cut approximately 100 others, as well as agricultural crops planted in a 2,000-square-meter plot in his land located approximately 500 meters east of the settlement. The settlers, he added, set up tents, vandalized his vineyards and the fence surrounding his farm, and wrote racist slogans on the walls of the land that calls for "Death to the Arabs.'

Source: En - Palestine news & Information Agency - WAFA