Israeli military bulldozers razed wide stretches of privately owned Palestinian land situated between the villages of Deir Qaddis and Kharbatha Bani Harith, west of Ramallah and al-Bireh in the central occupied West Bank, on Monday, July 13, 2026. The operation involved uprooting trees and leveling agricultural terrain in a manner residents say is intended to reshape the landscape of the area ahead of new settlement-related projects. The land-clearing work fits a broader pattern documented across the West Bank in recent months, in which Israeli authorities and settler groups have expanded existing outposts and built new access infrastructure, steadily eroding the amount of land available for Palestinian agricultural use in the areas surrounding Ramallah.
Israeli Bulldozers Level Large Tracts of Land West of Ramallah
