Ahmed Al-As'aad, the Palestinian official monitoring settler activity in the Jordan Valley, said that the Israeli Civil Administration, a military department responsible for the coordination of civil affairs in the West Bank, arrived at Khirbet Yarza and forced the residents to leave their village to a nearby area.

Mokhles Masa’ed, the head of Khirbet Yarza village’s council, said the Israeli forces declared the village a closed military zone to prevent the residents from protesting against the evacuation. Khirbet Yarza is home to some 200 Palestinian who work in farming and raising sheep.

Masa’ed said they were forces to leave the village under the pretext that their homes “located in the middle of a military training zone.”

The Israeli army confirmed the move. The army said the village is located in Area C.

According to the Oslo Agreement, Area A is under Palestinian administrative and security control, Area B under Palestinian administrative control but under Israeli security one, the Area C is under full Israeli control.

Meanwhile, the Israeli police in Jerusalem was put on high alert to prevent clashes between Palestinians and Jewish occupiers in the city.

Micky Rosenfeld, the spokesman of Israeli police, said that 3,000 officers, including border police and undercover units were deployed in the city to prevent possible clashes when occupiers march through East Jerusalem to mark to mark the anniversary of Israel’s capture of the area in 1967.

Rosenfeld said the occupiers are expected to march the East Jerusalem’s neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah. The neighborhood has been the scene of repeated clashes over the last two years due to Palestinian residents' opposition to occupiers moving there.

Israel captured East Jerusalem in the June 1967 War, annexed it, and has since built settlements there that are home to more than 200,000 Israelis.

Control over the city has been seen as the most sensitive and thorniest issue of Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Palestinians hope to make East Jerusalem the capital of their future state but the Israel says the city is its eternal capital, despite a previous United Nations resolution giving the city an international status.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu spoke to the US Congress last week, where he said that Israel is willing to make painful concessions for peace, but Jerusalem will not be divided.

“Jerusalem must never again be divided,” Netanyahu said to round of applause by the congressmen. “Jerusalem must remain the united capital of Israel.”