AMMAN — On Friday, the Colonization and Wall
Resistance Commission reported that the Israeli government seized 8,000 dunums
of land in the Jordan Valley, described by anti-settlement activists as the
largest such action in occupied Palestinian territories in decades.
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The
Head of the Commission, Muayyad Shaban stated that with the approval of Israeli
Minister of Finance Avigdor Lieberman, the Israeli government continues its
plan to seize control of Palestinian lands under various pretexts, including
declaring state lands for the benefit of settlement expansion, Al-Mamlaka TV
reported.
Shaban explained that 2024 witnessed the
‘largest seizure operation’ under the pretext of state lands in years, totaling
10,640 dunums in two separate announcements. The first, a month ago, targeted
lands in Al-Azariya and Abu Dis, seizing 2,640 dunums. The second, on Friday,
targeted lands in the Jordan Valley, amounting to 8,000 dunums for the
expansion of the Yafit settlement built on the lands of citizens in the village
of Fasayil in Jericho Governorate, in addition to another 500 dunums seized at
the end of 2023 from the lands of Jab'a village in Jerusalem.
He added that these recent land seizure
operations aim to connect existing settlements, leading to the isolation and
suffocation of Palestinian villages, completely cutting off their
communication.
Shaban urged Palestinians to continue legally
thwarting these plans by building legal files to refute Israel’s claims, and
popularly by not leaving these lands, insisting on staying and continuing
farming them, emphasizing that all Israeli measures violate international laws
and the legal system that explicitly prohibits the forceful control of occupied
land.
Additionally, the Israeli anti-settlement
organization, Peace Now, condemned the seizure of these lands in the area
located on the eastern slopes of the West Bank, as the ‘largest’ since the
signing of the Oslo Accords with the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) in
1993.
The Palestinian Ministry of Foreign Affairs
and Expatriates also condemned Lieberman's decision to seize 8,000 dunums of
the Jordan Valley and declare them ‘state lands’ as a prelude to allocating
them for settlement expansion.
In a statement issued on Friday, the Ministry
considered this act a ‘real crime’ within the framework of an official policy
rushing to annex the West Bank and erase the opportunity to realize the
Palestinian state.
It viewed that “there are no limits to the
Israeli right-wing's crimes, and no constraints from ethics, values,
principles, or international decisions can stop the extremist Israeli theft of
our people's cause and their extermination and the liquidation of their
rights."
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