Occupied territories, a 65-ton Israeli army tank disappears into thin air

  The Israeli army announced on Wednesday evening that one of its heavily armored tanks, a Merkava-2, ... had been stolen from one of its military training bases near Haifa, in the north of the occupied territories. Israeli police say they are investigating the theft of the tank, weighing 65 tons. Meanwhile, two people have been arrested on suspicion of being involved in the matter.

This is not the first time that Israeli military bases have been stolen. So far, cartridges and ammunition have been stolen several times from army bases. A quiet bureaucratic maneuver within Benjamin Netanyahu's far-right executive ... has made the annexation of the occupied West Bank all but official, beginning the process of transferring many supervisory powers over the West Bank from military to civilian leaders , in violation of international law. For decades, the Zionist regime has adopted a series of measures aimed at making the lives of dozens of Palestinian communities in the West Bank miserable. This is part of an effort to force residents of these communities to leave, apparently of their own free will, according to a new report by Israeli human rights organization B'Tselem.

Once this result has been achieved, the occupying regime will be able to realize its objective of appropriating the land of the natives. To pursue this goal, the Zionist regime prohibits members of these communities from building homes, agricultural structures or public buildings. It does not allow them to connect to water and electricity networks or to build roads, and when they do, having no other choice, the occupying regime threatens their demolition, often carrying out such threats.