OCCUPIED WEST BANK— On Saturday, the
Colonization and Wall Resistance Commission reported that Israel seized 27,000
dunums of Palestinian land following October 7, 2023.
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This includes 15,000 dunums under the guise of
adjusting boundaries of natural reserves in Jericho and the Jordan Valley, and
11,000 dunums through three orders declaring them state lands in Jerusalem and
Nablus, Al-Mamlaka TV reported.
The commission reported on the 48th Land Day
and the six months since Israel's war on the Gaza Strip. They indicated that
Israel seized 230 dunums through 24 confiscation orders for military purposes,
hindering future Palestinian access to thousands of dunums.
The commission stated that the area of
Palestinian lands under occupation, subject to numerous occupation measures,
reached 2,380 km², equivalent to 42 percent of the total West Bank area, and 69
percent of the classified C areas under military occupation.
The Head of the Commission, Muayyad Shaban
noted that Israel had begun to establish buffer zones around settlements
through a series of military orders, starting with the ‘Rafafa’ settlement on
Palestinian lands in Salfit, preventing access to 384 dunums. This was followed
by the ‘Harsha’ enclave on Palestinian lands in the western farm in Ramallah,
preventing access to 252 dunums, and then in Deir Dibwan east of Ramallah,
specifically around the ‘Mitzpe Dani’ settlement, preventing access to 320
dunums.
Shaban warned of the expansion of this plan to
include other settlements, further isolating lands and preventing Palestinian
access with military and security pretexts.
He added that following Israel's war on Gaza,
planning bodies in the occupation state had studied a total of 52 structural
plans, aiming to build a total of 8,829 settlement units on an area of 6,852
dunums. Approval was given for 1,895 units, while 6,934 new settlement units
were deposited.
These plans focused on Jerusalem with 13
structural plans, most of them in the ‘Ma'ale Adumim’ settlement, including the
approval of a structural plan following the cabinet's approval of the
‘legalization’ of a settlement outpost called Mishmar Yehuda. This was followed
by Bethlehem with nine structural plans for settlements mostly concentrated in
the ‘Beitar Illit’ and ‘Efrat’ settlements, followed by Salfit with eight
structural plans for settlements, mostly for the benefit of the Ariel
settlement. Then Ramallah with seven structural plans for various settlements
distributed throughout the governorate.
Settlers established 11 settlement outposts,
in addition to carving out five roads to facilitate settlers' movement and
connect outposts to existing settlements.
IOF
aggression and settler attacks: Impact on Palestinian communities and land
Shaban further noted that since October 7, the
Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) and settlers had carried out nearly 9,700
attacks, with 1,592 attacks concentrated in Jerusalem, followed by 1,471
attacks in Nablus, and 1,436 attacks in Hebron, while settlers carried out a
total of 1,156 attacks, mostly in Nablus with 388 attacks and Hebron with 276
attacks. These attacks resulted in killing 12 Palestinians by settlers.
The number of attacks carried out by the IOF
reached nearly 8,545 attacks, providing protection to settlers in 194 terrorist
incidents.
He added that following the aggression,
occupation measures and settler terrorism led to the displacement of 25
Palestinian Bedouin communities, consisting of 220 families and totaling 1,277
individuals, from their places of residence to other locations. The latest was
the displacement of the Sakhan community in the Central Jordan Valley and the
takeover by settlers.
According to the report, the occupation
authorities' measures and settler attacks prevented Palestinians from accessing
more than half a million dunums of agricultural land, especially olive groves
during the last olive harvest season, resulting in a significant decrease in
the season's yield. There were systematic targeting indicators of Palestinian
trees, especially olive trees, with the commission documenting attacks on more
than 9,600 Palestinian trees by smashing, uprooting, and poisoning, most of which
were olive trees.
The report also stated that the number of
permanent and temporary checkpoints dividing Palestinian lands and imposing
restrictions on the movement of individuals and goods reached a total of 840
military checkpoints and gates, including more than 140 gates set up since
October 7.
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