Minister Mu'ayyad Shaaban, head of the Wall and Settlement Resistance Commission, said that the Israeli occupation forces and settlers carried out 1,490 attacks during last October, in a continuation of the ongoing series of terrorism by the occupation state against the Palestinian people, their lands and their properties.

Shaaban explained in the commission's monthly report, "Occupation Violations and Colonial Expansion Procedures," that the occupation forces carried out 1,130 attacks, while the settlers carried out 360 attacks. The total attacks were concentrated in the governorates of Nablus with 307 attacks, Hebron with 280 attacks, and the Jerusalem governorate with 179 attacks.

He pointed out that the attacks ranged from armed attacks on Palestinian villages, to imposing facts on the ground, to field executions, to vandalism, to bulldozing of land, to uprooting trees, to seizing property, to closures, and to setting up checkpoints that cut off the ties of Palestinian geography.

A dangerous wave of terrorism in the olive season

360 attacks, most of them in Nablus, 245 acts of vandalism and theft, and the uprooting of 1,401 trees

The settlers' attacks reached 360 attacks, concentrated in Nablus Governorate with 108 attacks, Hebron Governorate with 81 attacks, Ramallah with 48 attacks, Salfit with 40 attacks, Bethlehem with 37 attacks, and Tulkarm with 19 attacks.

According to the report, settlers carried out 245 acts of vandalism, preventing access and stealing Palestinian property against olive pickers, including stealing olive crops in 26 cases, stealing harvesting equipment in 22 cases, in addition to stealing 15 tents and caravans belonging to citizens, and 3 cases of vehicle theft. Settler attacks also resulted in the uprooting of 1,401 trees, including 1,339 olive trees in the governorates of Hebron with 740 trees, Nablus with 193 trees, Ramallah with 178 trees, Bethlehem with 160 trees, Salfit with 100 trees, and Qalqilya with 30 trees.

The current olive season is witnessing an unprecedented wave of terrorist attacks prepared by the official establishment in the occupying state by unleashing gangs of settlers on defenseless farmers, who are safe on their lands.

He added that the occupying state is targeting the olive season as an emotional season that demonstrates the original relationship between the Palestinian citizen and the land, and that everything the occupying state is doing now falls within the framework of undermining the strong relationship with the land, in declared and clear plans to control the Palestinian geography and prevent citizens from reaching it.

He said that the Palestinian citizens, by their steadfastness on the land and their insistence on going to the olive groves, foiled the settlers' premeditated plans and brought back to the forefront the courage of the Palestinian owner of the land who does not give in to terrorism and does not retreat.

The Wall and Settlement Resistance Commission, in addition to partner institutions and popular committees, enabled citizens, through the national olive harvest campaign, to reach vast areas that had been closed by settler gangs for years, in preparation for controlling them, stressing that the success of the season has certainly become a failure for the occupation’s plans.

Attempt to establish 7 new colonial outposts

The settlers have attempted to establish 7 new colonial outposts since the beginning of last October, which were predominantly agricultural and pastoral in nature. These outposts were distributed by establishing a new colonial outpost on the lands of the Hebron Governorate with three outposts, an outpost on the lands of Ramallah and another in Jerusalem, another in Salfit, Tulkarm, and the last in Ramallah.

According to the report, the decision to establish colonial outposts comes under directives from within the occupation's "cabinet", which sponsors the colonial project and provides facilities to the colonists in order to implement plans to control the land and forcibly displace them, while the occupation government later volunteers to turn these measures into a reality.

The occupation seizes 84 dunums of citizens' land

Last month, the occupation authorities seized 84 dunums of citizens’ lands in the governorates of Jerusalem, Jenin, and Salfit, through 3 military orders that were monitored, aiming to impose new facts, under the pretext of security and military purposes, including the military order that requires the construction of a road to replace the main road of the city of Salfit.

After reviewing the maps of the military order, it became clear that the occupation army is deceiving the citizens who will object in court against the decision by claiming that the seizure came for security reasons, but in reality the military order wants to control the course and outcomes of the street under the pretext of security and military, without objection from the citizens in the case of closing the road in front of them on the first street that was allocated for the benefit of the settlers of "Ariel" only, and controlling the opening of the second road.

45 facilities demolished and 38 others notified to demolish

During the past month, the occupation authorities carried out 34 demolition operations, affecting 45 facilities, including 12 inhabited homes, 6 uninhabited ones, and 19 agricultural and other facilities. They were concentrated in the Hebron governorates, with the demolition of 16 facilities, then the Jerusalem and Bethlehem governorates, with the demolition of 4 facilities in each.

The occupation authorities distributed 38 demolition notices to Palestinian facilities, concentrated in Jenin Governorate with 17 notices, then Jericho Governorate with 8 notices, Jerusalem with 7 notices, and Hebron with 5 notices.

Legitimizing a new colonial focus and studying 15 structural plans

Last month, the planning authorities in the occupying state studied a total of 14 master plans (approval and deposit) for the purpose of expanding the settlements of the West Bank and Jerusalem, including the approval of 7 master plans, while a total of 8 other plans were deposited.

The plans targeting the West Bank aimed to build a total of 1,151 colonial units on an area estimated at 584 dunums of citizens’ land, while the plans within the borders of the city of Jerusalem aimed to build 500 colonial units on an area estimated at 107 dunums of citizens’ land.

Upon reviewing the maps of the plans and the files attached to them, it became clear that the occupation intends to settle the situation of “legalizing” a new colonial outpost, through plan number (Yusha/8/237), and to consider it a new colonial neighborhood affiliated with the “Eli” colony, which was built on citizens’ lands south of the Nablus Governorate.