Israel declares large swaths of land south of Hebron

Israeli occupation authorities declared today evening hundreds of dunums of land in the town of Yatta to the south of Hebron, in the southern occupied West Bank as “state land”.

 correspondent said Israeli army forces distributed notices declaring hundreds of dunums of land in the Birin area to the east of Yatta as “state land”.

The notices claimed that the land was declared state-owned since 1982.

Coordinator of the Anti-Wall and Settlement Committees Rateb al-Jabour, told WAFA that this Israeli measure comes as part of the ethnic cleansing policy carried out by the Israeli occupation against Palestinian residents in the Masafer Yatta area, the last of which was the demolition of three houses and a residential room in Khilet al-Dabe’ area yesterday.