The Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) seized a Palestinian-owned bulldozer in the town of Taqou in Bethlehem Sunday, as reported by the Palestinian news agency WAFA.

The town’s mayor Taysir Abu Mefreh said IOF soldiers stormed an area in the western part of the town and seized a bulldozer that was working on leveling ground for the construction of a building owned by a local resident.

The IOF has recently intensified its arbitrary measures against the town’s residents and their properties.

This included the demolition of residential tents, the seizure of equipment, the uprooting of trees and the bulldozing of land.