The head of the Wall and Settlement Resistance Commission, Moayed Shaaban, said that since the beginning of this year, the Israeli occupation authorities have seized about 40,000 dunams of citizens’ lands.

He explained during a press conference held at the authority’s headquarters in the city of Ramallah, today, Wednesday, that 24 thousand dunams of the lands that were seized were declared by the occupation under the name “state land,” in the largest land seizure in more than 30 years under this name.

Shaaban pointed out that the occupation authorities systematically targeted natural reserves to seize a total of more than 15,000 dunams in the context of expropriation and seizure. They also established 20 new colonial outposts in the same period, submitted more than 19,000 new colonial units for study, and converted 11 outposts into a colony. New powers were granted to intensify demolition operations in areas classified as “B” and “C.”

He pointed out that the occupation incited settlers to implement forced displacement plans, by displacing 26 Bedouin communities and carrying out more than 1,300 attacks and 23 holocausts in villages and towns. The occupation authorities also presented to the “Israeli Knesset” a set of racist laws for the purpose of controlling the Jordan Valley, the settlements in the southern West Bank, and archaeological sites. And the return of colonialism to the northern West Bank, all of which falls within the framework of the comprehensive and complete annexation of the Palestinian land, which is no longer a silent annexation, but rather has become blatant and declared in full view of the entire world, to be added to the dangerous data that indicates the occupation’s control over more than 43% of the total area of the West Bank. Western.

Shaaban continued: These and other measures no longer threaten the two-state solution, but rather, according to available data, they completely eliminated the possibility of achieving the two-state solution, and no longer sought to separate the north of the West Bank from its center and south, but rather separated the West Bank, cut off its parts, and turned it into cantons and ghettos, with great intentionality. And directly to impose this in front of everyone.

He said that what is striking today is that the behavior of the occupying state no longer targets only areas classified as “C,” but rather the measures have been extended to areas classified as “B,” with announcements that cancel the remaining political agreements, and through that challenge international legitimacy, Security Council resolutions, and the unified position of the world that Condemns colonialism and the behavior of the occupying state in the Palestinian territories.

Shaaban added: The occupying state, while practicing bullying on Palestinian land, is not only attacking the Palestinian national capabilities, but also attacking the international position, international legitimacy and United Nations resolutions, which makes its responsibility double regarding what is happening.

He called for the necessity of providing international protection to ensure deterring the brutality of the occupation and curbing the terrorism of the colonizers sponsored by the official institutions of the occupying state.

Shaaban stressed that the Commission will continue its efforts with all partners to provide the necessary files, reports and documents to all organizations, councils, bodies and courts in the world, especially the International Criminal Court and the International Court of Justice, in order to uncover the ugly face of the occupation.

He stressed that the steadfastness of the citizen in the land is the guarantee that will foil all the occupation’s plans, indicating that the Commission will seek to achieve a major leap in programs to support the steadfastness of citizens in areas threatened by colonial measures and settler attacks.

Shaaban said that the Commission will focus its efforts in the future on exposing the collusion of the judicial system with the political level in the occupying state, especially the crime of occupation in Jabal Subeih, which makes and indicates that the entire land is within the reach of the ambitions of the colonial project.

He pointed out that the occupying state seeks to systematically besiege Palestinian construction and natural growth, and today it is pushing a set of decisions and measures that threaten the intensification of demolitions in the future, in most of the West Bank, sometimes by claiming the lack of licenses that it intentionally withholds from citizens, and sometimes by claiming to protect archaeological sites. Forged, which requires a pause from all legal institutions, whether national or international, to put an end to the impending massacre.