Farmland seized in Beit Ummar

Israeli authorities handed over a decision Tuesday confiscating 12 dunums of land in Surif village northwest of Hebron and gave the owners orders to demolish a well and uproot trees. Yousef Abu Maria, coordinator of the national committees in Beit Ummar, told Ma’an that the land is 5 kilometers from a wall Israel is maintaining to separate the village from a nearby settlement. He added that the owners are registered as Jamal Muhammad Abdul Qadi and Ibrahim Abdul Hadi Hmeidat. The farmland has been planted with almond and olive crops for the past four years, he said.