An-Najah News - According to a local official Israeli military bulldozers, demolished a Palestinian-owned house and leveled a plot of land in Artas village, near Bethlehem even the owner had title deeds proving ownership of the land.

Israeli forces escorted a bulldozer to Khallet al-Nahleh area of the village, where the heavy machinery tore down an 80-square-meter house and leveled a plot of land belonging to a local resident said the Head of the Wall and Settlement Resistance Commission office in Bethlehem, Hassan Breijieh.

Khallet al-Nahleh is regularly targeted due to its location near illegal Israeli settlements, and Israel wants to take over Palestinian land in order to link the area settlements together.