(Ahlul Bayt News Agency) - The Israeli occupation forces (IOF) have refused to return two tractors and twelve water tanks confiscated from Palestinian citizens in the Jordan Valley over a month ago.

The municipal council of Wadi Al-Malih and Bedouin tribes said in a statement on Thursday that all efforts by human right groups in this direction were in vain.

It said that the water tanks have been confiscated over a month ago while the tractors were seized almost three weeks ago.

The council said that all IOF pretexts for appropriating the tractors and tanks were trivial, charging that the IOF was constantly pressuring the Bedouins in this area to force them to abandon their land to make way for the construction of new Jewish settlements.

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