OP and other links do not answer that.

That's why it doesn't have any such answers.

It's not a news item or a piece of journalism of any kind.

You don't force people to destroy their source of livlihood. There's no security justification for this. And if this land is owned by individual Palestinians, the IDF has no right to force them to do this.

According to a comment left on a thread on this same topic posted at Mondoweiss, it is because the Palestinians are encroaching on an Israeli declared "nature preserve".

There's the recently publicized distinction between Ottoman law, British interpretation of Ottoman law, and later Israeli re-interpretation of the law.

How does royal ("milk", 'king's') land become private? How does private land become royalland?

What about state land?

What do you do with land that was waqf under the Ottomans but nationalized by Jordan doing their non-existent occupation?

Or village land?

And for the sake of sanity let's just overlook the entire issue of "abandoned" land--whether abandoned in '48 or '67 or some other year, by Jews or Muslims or Druze.

All of that land, now nationalized under some authority or other, can be described as "private" if you choose to ignore the authority that licensed the nationalization. Since many PA sources ignore any Israeli authority that doesn't suit them at the moment, "private" can become a fairly vacuous term.

The entire land registration system in the area needs substantial reworking. Except that there's nobody trusted by anybody else to do the reworking, and no agreed-upon system that would provide the basis for the reworking.

Anyway, it "feels" like (no thinking involved here) that this was basically a way of squatting on the land, using land for agricultural purposes that would constitute a valid claim of ownership.

land and is under complete Israeli military and civil control

Honor system, indeed!

but that certainly hasn't stopped anyone since DU3 started