Illegal paramilitary Israeli colonizers on Monday began bulldozing privately owned Palestinian land in Khirbet Samra, in the northern Jordan Valley of the occupied West Bank, in a continuation of escalating attempts to seize and transform large areas of the region.
Mahdi Daraghma, head of the al‑Maleh and Bedouin Communities Council, said the colonizers brought heavy machinery and began leveling land registered in the Palestinian Land Registry, without providing any explanation.
He noted that the move is part of a broader effort to assert control over strategic areas of the northern Jordan Valley.
On Sunday, colonizers fenced off hundreds of dunams in the same area, a step local residents described as part of a silent annexation policy targeting the eastern strip of the Tubas governorate in the northeastern West Bank.
This policy forced six Palestinian families to leave the area last year following repeated harassment, land seizures, and restrictions on access to grazing and agricultural land.
Large parts of the northern Jordan Valley continue to witness a sharp escalation in colonizer attacks against Palestinian residents and their property, including land seizures, fencing, bulldozing, and attempts to forcibly remove communities from their homes and grazing areas.
