SALFIT, (Palestine Foundation Information Center), The Israeli occupation authority has announced the start of burials in a settler cemetery established on Palestinian-owned land in the town of al‑Zawiya, west of Salfit in the West Bank.
Amir Shaqir, acting head of al‑Zawiya municipality, said that settlers set up a graveyard on about 180 dunums of land in the western area of the town and buried one body.
He described this practice as a “clear violation of private property rights” and an “attempt to impose control over these dunums of land by force.”
Shaqir said that the targeted area faces daily settler attacks, ranging from the uprooting of olive trees and the bulldozing of wide stretches of farmland to the issuance of land‑seizure notices.
He added that such settler practices are aimed at seizing about 4,000 dunums of the town’s land as part of Israeli efforts to change the geographic and demographic character of the area.
