Days of Palestine – Bethlehem
Palestinian activists and residents succeeded on Tuesday in kicking out Israeli settlers who attempted last week to steal land in the historic town of Battir, west of the southern West Bank city of Bethlehem, according to Ghassan Eliyan, one of the activists.
He said that activists and landowners held a relentless vigil at the 23-dunum plot since the settlers attempt to steal it and succeeded in kicking them out of the land.
The settlers dismantled a 40-meter long by 10-meter wide tent and water tanks they had placed on the land in an attempt to take it over and left the area along with their cattle.
Since occupying the West Bank in 1967, the Israeli occupation has misappropriated more than 2 million dunams of land there for its own purposes, including building and expanding settlements and paving roads for settlers.
Some areas have been officially taken over by the occupation entity, others through daily acts of settler violence.
These two seemingly unrelated tracks are both forms of state violence: the Israeli apartheid regime and its representatives actively aid and abet the settlers’ violence as part of a strategy to cement the steal the Palestinian lands.
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