Hebron – Ma'an – Israeli settlers flanked by soldiers seized new land south of the West Bank city of Hebron on Sunday, Palestinian security sources said.

Security officials in Hebron said that the settlers, from the nearby settlement Karmel, near the Palestinian town of Yata, erected a metal fence on land near the settlement and prevented local Palestinian resident from approaching the fence. The settlers appeared to be preparing to occupy the land.

The confiscated farmland belongs to families from Yatta, including Abu Hamid, Qraeich, and Abu Fanar. The Palestinians who own the land are urging international intervention to save their land, as they say farming is their only source of income.

Sources in Yatta say that there has been new construction in the Karmel settlement, and that new settlers have arrived to live in the community.

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