KHAN YOUNIS, (PIC)-- IOF troops bulldozed large areas of Palestinian cultivated lands and hothouses in an incursion at dawn Tuesday east of Khuza'a town in Khan Younis district, south of Gaza Strip.

Sheikh Kamal Al-Najjar, the Khuza'a mayor, told PIC reporter that the soldiers' destruction streak reflected their vicious desire for revenge.

Preliminary estimates indicated that the invading troops bulldozed more than 120 dunums of lands including 20 hothouses and uprooted hundreds of olive and other types of trees in addition to destroying wheat and barely fields, Najjar elaborated.

Inhabitants in the area said that the incursion started at a late hour on Monday night and continued till the early morning hours on Tuesday.

Najjar said that the occupation forces embarked on the largest ever bulldozing operation in the area to establish isolation, security zone between this area and borders of the 1948 occupied lands.