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Saturday, July 25, 2009

Israeli Soldiers Watch Settlers Grab Nablus Land

Settlers have grabbed acres of Palestinian land south of the West Bank city of Nablus while Israeli soldiers stand and watch the incident as inactive onlookers.

The Palestinian Authority official monitoring settler activity in the northern West Bank said dozens of settlers overran the land near a military checkpoint on the outskirts of Hawara village on Friday.

They unloaded metal and barbed wire from trucks and fenced off the 40,000-square-meter area, which lies between the villages of Kafr Qalil and Burin, Ghassan Dughlus reported.

He said soldiers stationed at the nearby Huwwara checkpoint did not intervene.

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