The zionist authorities resumed digging and bulldozing operations on Tuesday morning in the Palestinian village of Umm al-Hiran in the Negev desert, for the second consecutive day, as a prelude to building a Jewish settlement.

According to local sources, construction contractors, workers and heavy machinery escorted by a large number of zionist police forces stormed Umm al-Hiran village once again and embarked on preparing the area for the building of a settlement, amid fears of intents to displace the local residents.

Meanwhile, dozens of Palestinian citizens from different Negev areas started on Monday to flock to Umm al-Hiran after local officials sounded the alarm over israeli intents to repeat the 2017 violent scenes in the village with the aim of displacing its residents and building a Jewish settlement.

“We must all go to the village to confront such plans, which are a continuation of the 1948 Nakba (catastrophe). They want to displace us as they have done before,” Arab member of the Knesset Youssef al-Atawna said in press remarks after he rallied with other protesters in the village on Monday.

Right-wing Jewish groups and the zionst government have been working to demolish Umm al-Hiran and transfer its residents for long years at the pretext that the village is unrecognized, although its residents were transferred there by the Israeli army in the 1950s. (ILKHA)