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Sat 30 Mar 2024 10:48 am - Jerusalem Time

On the anniversary of Land Day: Israel seized 27 thousand dunums after October 7th

The Israeli authorities seized 27 thousand dunums of Palestinian land, after the Israeli aggression against our people on the seventh of last October, including 15 thousand dunums under the name of amending the boundaries of natural reserves in Jericho and the Jordan Valley, and 11 thousand dunums through three orders declaring state land in Jerusalem and Nablus governorates, and 230 dunums through 24 seizure orders, for military purposes, preventing citizens’ access to thousands of dunums in the future.


The Wall and Settlement Resistance Commission explained, in a report issued today, Saturday, on the occasion of the forty-eighth anniversary of Immortal Land Day, and half a year after the terrible aggression launched by the occupying state’s agencies against places of Palestinian presence, especially in the Gaza Strip, that the area of Palestinian land controlled by the occupying state and subject to For many occupation measures, it amounted to 2,380 km2, equivalent to 42% of the total territory of the West Bank, and 69% of the total areas classified (C), which are areas subject to occupation military rule.


The head of the commission, Minister Moayed Shaaban, pointed out that the occupying state had actually begun to establish buffer zones around the colonies, through a series of military orders, starting with the “Rifafa” colony established on citizens’ lands in Salfit Governorate, and preventing citizens’ access to 384 dunums, then in the “Harasha” outpost. ", built on citizens' lands in the Western Mazra'ah in Ramallah Governorate, and preventing citizens' access to 252 dunums, then in Deir Dibwan, east of Ramallah, specifically around the "Mitzpe Danny" colony, and preventing citizens' access to 320 dunums, warning against extending this plan to include Other colonies, thus isolating more lands and preventing citizens from accessing them under military and security pretexts.


He added that, after the occupation's aggression against our people, the planning authorities in the occupying state studied a total of 52 structural plans, for the purpose of building a total of 8,829 colonial units on an area of 6,852 dunums. The approval process took place on 1,895 units, while 6,934 new colonial units were deposited.


These plans were concentrated in the Jerusalem Governorate with 13 structural plans, most of them in the “Maale Adumim” colony, including the approval of a structural plan that followed the approval of the occupation “cabinet” to “legitimize” a colonial outpost under the name “Mishmar Yehuda”, which is located between the two established “Efrat” colonies. On the lands of the Bethlehem Governorate, and the “Kedar” colony established on the lands of the Jerusalem Governorate, followed by the Bethlehem Governorate with 9 structural plans for colonies established on its lands, most of which are concentrated in the “Beitar Illit” and “Efrat” colonies, followed by the Salfit Governorate with 8 structural plans for the colonies, Most of them are for the benefit of Ariel Colony, then Ramallah Governorate, with 7 plans for various colonies distributed throughout the governorate.


The colonists established 11 colonial outposts, in addition to constructing 5 roads, to facilitate the movement of the colonists and to connect the outposts to existing colonies.


Shaaban added that, since October 7, the occupation army and the colonialist militias have carried out a total of 9,700 attacks. These attacks were concentrated in the Jerusalem Governorate with 1,592 attacks, then the Nablus Governorate with 1,471 attacks, then the Hebron Governorate with 1,436 attacks, while the colonists carried out a total of 1,156 attacks, concentrated In the Nablus governorates, there were 388 attacks, and the Hebron governorate, with 276 attacks. These attacks caused the martyrdom of 12 Palestinians at the hands of colonists.


While the number of attacks carried out by the occupation army reached a total of 8,545 attacks, and it provided protection to the colonists in 194 terrorist incidents.


Shaaban added that, shortly after the terrible aggression, the occupation measures and the terrorism of the “colonist militia” led to the displacement of 25 Palestinian Bedouin communities, consisting of 220 families, including 1,277 individuals, from their places of residence to other places, the most recent of which was the displacement of the Al-Sukhn community in the Central Jordan Valley and the terrorist colonists’ control of the site.


He stated that the measures of the occupation authorities and the attacks of colonialists prevented citizens from accessing more than half a million dunums of agricultural land, especially those planted with olives in the last olive harvest season, which led to a decrease in the season’s production to its minimum levels, in addition to indicators of systematic targeting of the Palestinian tree. Especially the olive tree, as the Commission’s crews monitored attacks on more than 9,600 Palestinian trees by destroying, uprooting, and poisoning, most of them olive trees.


According to the report, the number of permanent and temporary checkpoints (gates, military or dirt barriers) that divide the Palestinian territories and impose restrictions on the movement of individuals and goods to date has reached a total of 840 military checkpoints and gates, including more than 140 gates that were installed shortly after the 7th of October.


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On the anniversary of Land Day: Israel seized 27 thousand dunums after October 7th

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