Farmers at Palestinian Husan town, west of Bethlehem, have complained that extremist settlers are flooding their lands with sewer.
Mohammed Sabateen, head of the local council in Husan, said that colonists, illegally squatting on Palestinian lands, flooded farmlands with wastewater.
Sabateen said the attack is aimed at preventing the Palestinians from plowing and planting their lands.
He stressed that this serious contamination would prevent farmers from harvesting their grapevines and olive trees in the near future.
The incident came as Israeli occupation forces conducted mass arrests in the West Bank.
Late on Monday, Israeli forces attacked a Palestinian hospital in the occupied West Bank city of Tulkarem by storming the center and firing “concussion grenades” at the hospital.
Director of the Thabet Government Hospital Haitham Shadeed told WAFA news agency that he and the medical staff were left shocked when Israeli forces raided the hospital courtyard and the Outpatient Clinics Section’s waiting room at 3:30 am.
The raid, he said, spread fear and panic among the medical staff and patients, especially the children and elderly.
Further, the Israeli occupation forces stormed the West Bank and East Jerusalem Monday and arrested a number of Palestinians.
The Israeli army claimed that the arrests targeted Palestinian youths who throw stones and carry out armed operations.
