The Israeli occupation forces suppressed today, Friday, a sit-down condemning the settlement expansion and the settlers´ repeated attacks on citizens and their property, in Masafer Yatta, south of Hebron, and detained a number of citizens, foreign solidarity activists and journalists.
The coordinator of the popular committees to resist the wall and settlements, east of Yatta and south of Hebron, Rateb al-Jabbour, stated that the occupation soldiers attacked citizens and foreign solidarity activists participating in the vigil and assaulted them, and detained a number of citizens, including foreign solidarity activists and journalists, among whom was known Wafa agency photographer Mashhour al-Wawah, and journalist Sari Jaradat, Jamil. robbed
He added that the occupation army closed the roads leading to the event, and declared it a closed military zone.
Al-Jabour stated that hundreds of people and landowners performed Friday prayers on their lands in the “Umm Al Shaqhan” area, which is threatened to be seized by the “Afiqal” settlers, located between the village of Al-Tuwani and the Shaab Al-Butum, east of Yatta.
The participants raised the Palestinian flags, and chanted slogans condemning the policy of ethnic cleansing pursued by the occupation against the citizens, stressing their adherence to their land, and that they will not allow the occupation to implement its settlement plans and rob their lands.
This event comes as part of a series of weekly activities organized by the Committee to Combat the Wall and Settlement and Land Owners, the “Fatah” movement’s territory in Yatta, and the Protection and Resilience Committees, in response to the settlers’ repeated attempts to seize this area in favor of expanding nearby settlements, most recently of which a number of them set up tents, He placed a passenger bus on land belonging to the “Jabarin” family in that area.
