#land-confiscation

#land-confiscation

The death knell for the Palestinian village of Atouf, on the western slopes of the Jordan valley, arrived in the form of a trail of paper, a series of eviction notices taped to homes, greenhouses and wells, marking a straight line across the open fields. The notices, which appeared overnight, informed the local farmers that their land would be confiscated and that they had seven days from the date of their delivery, 4 December, to vacate their properties.

Attacks on Palestinians have intensified during the harvesting season as Israel pushes measures to annex the occupied territory. This olive harvest season in the occupied West Bank has witnessed the highest level of damage and number of Israeli settler attacks since 2020, a United Nations agency has found. The Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) on Friday said 126 attacks were recorded in 70 towns and villages, and more than 4,000 olive trees and saplings were vandalised.