Israeli settlers have seized Palestinian land lots in the southern corners of the occupied West Bank in order to build a road connecting illegal settlements in the area.

Local sources said that Israeli settlers have been spotted bulldozing Palestinian land tracts near Dura town, located to the southwest of Hebron city. The land belongs to two local Palestinian families.

The land has been seized in order to build a road for the settlement of Negehot, built illegally on Dura land.

Six new settlement outposts have been built on Palestinian land in the south of the West Bank in the last two years. All settlements are considered illegal by international law and United Nations resolutions.

The international community widely considers the establishment of Israeli settlements in the Israeli-occupied territories illegal on one of two bases: that they are in violation of Article 49 of the Fourth Geneva Convention, or that they are in breach of international declarations.

Numerous UN resolutions and prevailing international opinion hold that Israeli settlements in the West Bank, East Jerusalem and the Golan Heights are a violation of international law, including UN Security Council resolutions in 1979, 1980, and 2016. UN Security Council Resolution 446 refers to the Fourth Geneva Convention as the applicable international legal instrument, and calls upon Israel to desist from transferring its own population into the territories or changing their demographic makeup.