The head of the Wall and Settlement Resistance Commission, Minister Moayed Shaaban, said that the occupying state has begun, since the formation of the last government, to make radical changes in the way it deals with the lands of the West Bank and Jerusalem, through a series of measures that it imposed on the reality of the Palestinian lands.

Shaaban stated in a statement today, Saturday, that the series of measures and steps initiated by the occupying state firstly reduced the steps for approving expansion plans for the colonies from four steps to two steps, then allowed the return of colonialism to the northern West Bank and facilitated the procedures for settling the status of colonial outposts or legitimizing them according to the occupation name. In addition to the forced displacement of Bedouin communities in order to evacuate the land from its original owners, hand it over to the colonial project, and finally intensify the land seizure operations, all of which were aimed at eliminating the Palestinian presence and weakening its capabilities.

He said: The occupying state has drawn up a list of more than 70 colonial outposts in order to work to settle their situation by providing basic and security services, which means imposing a system of ghettos and cantons aimed at causing a systematic disruption of the Palestinian geography, which necessarily leads to the complete destruction of the possibility of establishing a Palestinian state.

He stated that the occupying state, since the beginning of last year and coinciding with the formation of the far-right government, whose most important slogans and goals were the issue of colonial settlement, has seized more than 75 thousand dunums of Palestinian land under various names, including: state land declarations, natural reserves, and military orders.

Shaaban revealed that the most dangerous thing the occupying state has done in the past few years, which was fully embodied by the current occupation government, is to give the form of its colonial procedures an administrative character, by removing the security and military dimensions from the operations of land control and colonial expansion.

He continued: This form, which amounts to the levels of administrative annexation of lands, represented the integration of the processes of publishing plans according to the sites of the occupation ministries and not according to the sites of colonial institutions, in addition to the discussion of annexing the colonies of the southern West Bank to the Negev Development Authority in the occupation Knesset, and what it entails in terms of it being a form. Among the forms of administrative annexation of these areas, and what was announced in the past few days regarding the creation of the position of Vice President of the Civil Administration, granting the position superior powers at the level of lands, buildings, water, reserves, and antiquities.

Shaaban stressed that what the occupying state is doing and what it aims to implement, in addition to being considered retaliation against the will of the countries that began to recognize the Palestinian state, is an attack on the will and international legitimacy that criminalized colonialism and the behavior of the occupying state that requires control of Palestinian land.

He stressed that had it not been for the weakness of this international will to protect its decisions and positions and the double standards, the occupying state would not have dared to proceed with the assault on the capabilities of our people.