PA official: Israel to confiscate Nablus land for bypass road

Israeli authorities will confiscate 800 acres of land west of Nablus to build a bypass road, a PA official said Tuesday Maan reported

Ghassan Doughlas, who monitors settlement activity in the northern West Bank, told Ma'an that Israeli forces handed evacuation orders to several land owners in the villages of Beit Iba, al-Naqura and Zawatta on Tuesday.

Doughlas called on the international community to intervene to stop the Israeli policy of land confiscation in the West Bank. The PA official also called for an end to settler attacks against Palestinian communities.

Settler violence against Palestinians is systematic in the occupied West Bank, with the perpetrators rarely being prosecuted by Israel.