Nablus: Israeli colonists have reportedly vandalized livestock equipment and plowed large tracts of Palestinian land in the northern Jordan Valley. The head of the Al-Maleh and Bedouin encampments village council, Mahdi Daraghmeh, stated that the incidents occurred on Wednesday night.
According to Palestine News and Information Agency - WAFA, a group of colonists stole iron fences from a livestock pen and slashed the tires of a water tanker belonging to Abd Rabbo Bani Odeh in the Al-Deir area of the northern Jordan Valley. In a related incident, colonists plowed dozens of dunams of Palestinian-owned land in Khirbet Samra, cultivating approximately 250 dunams of land owned by Palestinians with official land registration documents.
The incidents come in the wake of recent activities by colonists who have fenced off thousands of dunams of agricultural and grazing land in various areas of the northern Jordan Valley. Local residents describe these actions as an attempt to impose de facto Israeli control over Tubas Governorate.
