Israeli forces raze agricultural land west of Bethlehem

BETHLEHEM: Israeli occupation forces Wednesday razed a agricultural land in the Husan village, west of the occupied West Bank city of Bethlehem, according to a local source. Jamal Sabatin, head of Husan Village Council, said that the occupation forces, escorting a bulldozer, razed a 6-donum tract of land cultivated with olive trees in the Wadi al-Ghweit, located between Husan and the nearby village of Nahhalin, belonging to several families. The 'Civil Administration' is the name Israel gives to the body administering its military occupation of the West Bank. Soldiers in the oxymoronically named Civil Administration determine where Palestinians may live, where and when they may travel (including to other parts of the occupied territories like Gaza and East Jerusalem), whether they can build or expand homes on their own land, whether they own that land at all, whether an Israeli colonist can take over that land among others. Source: Palestine News and Information Agency – WAFA