[News] 60, 000 dunums of Masafer Yatta land threatened with appropriation

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60,000 dunums of Masafer Yatta land threatened with appropriation
AL-KHALIL, (PIC) - November 29, 2022
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The council of Masafer Yatta villages has warned of a dire situation
threatening tens of thousands of dunums of land in Masafer Yatta area,
which the Israeli occupation state plans to annex and expel its local
residents from.

“About 60,000 dunums of Masafer Yatta land are threatened with
appropriation and its residents with displacement by the occupation state
and settlers,” head of the council Nidhal Yunis said in press remarks on
Monday.

“The occupation state classified 35,000 dunums of Masafer Yatta land as a
firing zone and issued decision ordering the expulsion of its residents
from it, while settlers are trying to seize another 25,000 dunums of its
land,” Yunis added.

In a related context, the Israeli occupation army delivered on Monday
morning a demolition notice against the elementary school of Khashm al-Karm
in the Bedouin community of al-Badiya in Masafer Yatta, south of al-Khalil.

The army gave the local authorities 96 hours to evacuate the school as a
prelude to demolishing it.

“The school is located within the zoning plan of Arab an-Najada village in
Yatta, which has a population of 450 citizens,” Yunis pointed out.

“33 students from first to fourth grade receive their education at the
school, which was established at the beginning of the current academic year
with funding from European countries,” he added.

Last week, the Israeli army demolished the Isfey elementary school in the
hamlet of Khirbet Isfey al-Fuqa in Masafer Yatta. It is one of more than a
dozen schools built across the occupied West Bank with funding from the
European Union.
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