Soldiers Uproot Agricultural Lands Near Bethlehem

Israeli occupation forces manage to trash more Palestinian farmland.

Woman hugs her Olive trees as Army uproots them, file - paltoday.ps

(AL WAKAJA, Occupied Palestine) - It is a fairly common story for dual language Palestinians; listening to reports of Israel's "need to defend itself" on Hebrew Radio, and then watching the Israelis invade their neighborhoods and in this case, agriculture fields, with the express purpose of destroying Palestinian property.

They say Israel's apartheid laws allow this to happen. Separate laws for Palestinians and Jews and even more separate laws, rules and conditions for the 'fundamentalist' extremists who drive the desire to eliminate the Palestinians through genocide, with their 'settlements' that no government in their right mind, or with a heart, would ever agree with or approve of.

Oh, and to colonize, by building another illegal colony, or 'settlement' as Israel likes to refer to them. They are internationally illegal manifestation of Israeli religious extremists and terrorists.

The Middle East Media Center reported today, that Israeli soldiers uprooted and bulldozed on Tuesday morning agricultural lands in the Al Walaja village, near the West Bank city of Bethlehem.

Israeli soldiers invaded that village after closing all of its entrances while a military bulldozer uprooted the agricultural lands under tight security measures and a vast deployment of the military.

The soldiers were also heavily deployed in five neighborhoods in Al Walaja to prevent the residents from protecting their lands.

The razed agricultural lands are owned by Ahmad Barghouth, and are located in Ein Jweiza area, north of the village.

The attack was carried out to enable expansion of a nearby illegal Israeli settlement.

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Source: International Middle East Media Center