Israeli settlers today opened a dirt access road on Palestinian land belonging to the residents of Dura town, southwest of the occupied West Bank city of Hebron, according to local sources.

Sabri Muraqtan, a resident, said that settlers from the nearby encroaching colonial settlement of Adora opened a dirt road leading Far‘a Spring, located in the land of the town residents, to take it over as a prelude to seize scores of donums of land.

He stressed that the land at the risk of confiscation, which covers over 70 donums, as well as the water spring belong to Suleiman, Abdul-Fattah and Abdul-Rahman Muraqtan, while expressing his concerns that the move is intended to expand the colonial settlement at the expense of the town indigenous residents.

There are over 800,000 Israeli settlers living in colonial settlements in the West Bank and East Jerusalem.

Source: Palestine news and Information Agency