Zionist settlers plowed Palestinian lands on Wednesday morning in the Bedouin community of Shallal al-Auja, north of Jericho, in preparation for seizing and annexing them to a recently established colonial outpost in the area.
Hassan Mleihat, general supervisor of the al-Baidar Organization for the Defense of Bedouin Rights, said that colonists, accompanied by agricultural tractors, began early in the morning to plow lands in the Shallal al-Auja area, with the aim of cultivating them and adding them to lands seized over recent months as part of plans to expand the new outpost.
He added that a number of colonists residing in the outpost, under the protection of Israeli occupation forces, have been intimidating residents, chasing them, assaulting them, and detaining them in an effort to forcibly empty the area.
These practices aim to advance further colonial schemes to take control of more land in the area, much of which has already been affected by the segregation wall and by colonial outposts legalized by the Israeli government.
