Israeli forces declared Masafer Yatta a firing zone in 2000 and Palestinian residents have faced expulsion orders from the area ever since. (File photo)
The Israeli military ordereded two residents of Masafer Yatta in the south of the West Bank to remove structures while settlers attacked and forced farmers to leave their lands.
Local sources said Israeli soldiers broke into the village of Maeen, one of the communities in the Masafer Yatta cluster, and informed a local resident to remove a caravan and another to remove a tin structure.
At the same time, settlers from the illegal settlement of Yacoub Talia attacked farmers who were plowing their lands in the village of Lasifer, also in Masafer Yatta, threw stones at them, and forced them to leave their lands.
Lasifer was isolated by the apartheid barrier, making access of farmers to their lands located beyond the barrier only through a checkpoint.