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Israeli forces storm West Bank’s Tubas, position snipers on rooftops: Report
Israeli forces have moved into the city of Tubas in the occupied West Bank, where heavy gunfire has gone off, reports the Palestinian Wafa news agency. Citing local sources, the agency said Israeli forces have raided at least one house in the city and set up snipers on its rooftop.
In addition, Israeli forces have stormed the West Bank town of Bir Nabala, near Jerusalem, and the city of Hebron, where they arrested a young man, said Wafa.
Israeli military vehicles operate during an Israeli raid in near Tubas in the occupied West Bank
Israel’s West Bank land registration serves ‘annexation’: NGO
An Israeli rights group has denounced a government decision to launch extensive land registration for parts of the occupied West Bank, saying it could help advance annexation of the Palestinian territory.
“It is a tool for annexation,” said Yonatan Mizrachi of the Settlement Watch project at Israeli non-governmental organisation Peace Now.
The West Bank, which Israel has occupied since 1967, has no comprehensive land registry, with some areas unregistered or residents holding deeds from before the Israeli occupation.
The Israeli security cabinet on Sunday decided to initiate a land registration process in the West Bank’s Area C, which covers more than 60 percent of the territory and is under full Israeli control.
Though the process would likely take “years”, according to Mizrachi, adding Palestinians in Area C could lose land if Israeli authorities do not accept their claim to it. This might lead to “a massive land theft”, Peace Now said. The process could result “in the transfer of ownership of the vast majority of Area C to the [Israeli] state”.
