Al-Mazra’ah al-Gharbiyah, Ramallah District: Settlers perform road construction work on residents’ land

On the morning of Wednesday, 12 January 2022, settlers used a bulldozer to dig up an area about one kilometer long and eight meters wide, on land belonging to village residents. They were preparing to pave a road linking the settlement of Talmon with the outpost of Haresha, established east of the village. The next day, Palestinian DCO officials came to the spot and contacted the Israeli DCO, which stopped the work and suggested the residents file a complaint.

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