Hundreds of Jewish settlers Monday stormed Palestinian agricultural land in al-Baqa'a area, east of Hebron in the southern West Bank, according to local sources.

Atta Jaber, one of the land owners, told WAFA hundreds of settlers protected by Israeli soldiers, raided about 1000 dunums of land and started planting it with forest tress as it belongs to them.

Palestinians are banned from entering their land without a prior permission and coordination with the Israeli civil administration until 2014.

Jaber called on the Palestinian ministry of agricultural to plant al-Baqa’a area land within the ministry’s greening Palestine project to protect it from settlers and Israeli soldiers.