The Wall and Settlement Resistance Commission announced today, Sunday, that violations by the Israeli occupation forces and settlers recorded a record increase last year, 2024.

The Commission stated that the number of these violations reached 16,612 against citizens and their property in various governorates.

The head of the Wall and Settlement Resistance Commission, Minister Mu'ayyad Shaaban, said during a press conference held at the Commission's headquarters, in the presence of the Director of the Government Communication Center, Muhammad Abu al-Rab, that the occupation army carried out 13,641 violations, while the settlers committed 2,971 violations.

The occupation's violations were concentrated in the Hebron Governorate, with 2,934 violations, followed by the Nablus Governorate with 2,531 violations, then the Ramallah and Al-Bireh Governorate, in which 2,224 violations were monitored.

Shaaban explained that the settlers' violations were concentrated in Nablus Governorate with 806 attacks, then Hebron Governorate with 657 violations, and Ramallah and Al-Bireh Governorate with 532 violations.

10 martyrs in settlers’ violations and attacks on more than 14 thousand trees

The Minister stated that 10 citizens were martyred during the past year at the hands of settlers, who caused 373 fires to property and fields in the governorates of Nablus, Ramallah, Jenin and Tulkarm, in addition to 451 violations that resulted in the uprooting, damage, sabotage and poisoning of a total of 14,212 trees, including 10,459 olive trees.

Hebron topped the governorates in terms of the number of damaged trees, with 3,980 trees, followed by Bethlehem Governorate with 3,791 trees damaged and uprooted, then Nablus Governorate with 2,737 trees damaged and uprooted.

Establishing 51 new colonial outposts and starting to settle the status of 13

The head of the Wall and Settlement Resistance Commission explained that last year, the settlers established 51 new colonial outposts, 36 of which took the form of pastoral outposts in the governorates of Ramallah and Al-Bireh, Bethlehem, Hebron, Nablus, Jerusalem, Tubas, Jericho, Salfit, and Tulkarm.

He pointed out that the occupation authorities have practically begun to settle the status of 13 colonial outposts, so that some of them will be transformed in the future into colonial neighborhoods or colonies in themselves, through government decisions and amending the borders of colonies.

More than 770 thousand settlers in 180 settlements and 256 outposts

Shaaban pointed out that the number of settlers in the West Bank settlements, including Jerusalem, reached a total of 770,420 settlers by the end of 2024, distributed over 180 settlements and 256 colonial outposts, including 138 outposts classified as pastoral and agricultural.

He said that the occupying state redefined itself in 2024 as the last apartheid state on earth, removing the mask from an ugly face dripping with blood, extremism and racism. It did not stop there, but rather positioned itself as a moving crime machine that is insatiable with killing, theft and tightening its grip on citizens’ necks, to present itself on a platter of the bones and skulls of the innocent and the weak, in a blatant challenge to the simplest rules of ethics of conflicts and relations known to humanity.

He called on all national institutions, official, popular and civil, to join the framework of a national strategy to confront the occupation’s plan, considering it a top national priority to mobilize national and popular capabilities and reproduce new tools that are compatible with the stage and adapt to its difficulties, pointing out that the current stage brings the old-new demand back to the forefront, which is the necessity and quality of real and immediate international protection that protects the Palestinian people and their national capabilities in the face of the occupation’s bullying.

903 facilities demolished and 939 others notified

The head of the Wall and Settlement Resistance Commission stated that the occupation authorities issued 903 demolition notices against Palestinian facilities last year under the pretext of lack of permits, distributed in the Hebron governorate with 180 notices, the Jericho and Jordan Valley governorate with 140 notices, and then the Bethlehem governorate with 126 notices, during which 20 notices were issued targeting the eastern Bethlehem wilderness.

He noted that the occupation authorities carried out a total of 684 demolition operations during the year 2024, during which 903 facilities were demolished in the West Bank, including the city of Jerusalem, and 4,332 people were affected as a result, including 2,320 children.

The demolitions were concentrated in the Jerusalem governorates with 190 demolitions, then the Hebron governorate with 172 demolitions, and the Bethlehem governorate with 68 demolitions.

Seizing more than 46 thousand dunums and approving the construction of 8800 colonial units

On the level of colonial expansion, Mu'ayyad Shaaban said that the occupation authorities seized 46,597 dunums last year, pursuant to a series of military orders issued, including 35 orders to seize land that targeted about 1,073 dunums to establish 12 buffer zones around the settlements, 5 "expropriation" orders that ended with the seizure of about 803 dunums, 8 decisions to declare state lands that targeted 24,597 dunums, and 6 orders to modify the borders of a nature reserve, pursuant to which the occupation seized about 20,000 dunums.

Shaaban pointed out that the "planning committees" of the occupation authorities studied a total of 173 plans targeting settlements established on the lands of the West Bank and Jerusalem.

He added that these committees studied the plans for the establishment of 23,461 colonial units, which resulted in the approval of the construction of 8,800 new colonial units, and the deposit of a total of 14,661 colonial units for subsequent approval. These plans targeted a total of 14,982 dunums of citizens’ lands.

The annexation plan is no longer silent

The head of the Wall and Settlement Resistance Commission, Mu'ayyad Shaaban, stressed that the occupying state has escalated the pace of implementing its goals related to the Palestinian land to unprecedented levels, within the framework of its efforts to control all the lands between the river and the sea in order to decide Jewish superiority, in the context of eliminating the possibility of establishing a Palestinian state, by isolating Jerusalem and emptying it of its authentic Palestinian cultural and civilizational context, and by controlling the strategic joints of the Palestinian geography, through division, looting and tampering, and by controlling the Palestinian way of life and livelihood, through checkpoints and an intensive closure system.

He added that the occupying state continued to implement the annexation plan, specifically in the Jordan Valley and eastern slopes, reaching Masafer Yatta in the far south of the West Bank, by creating a coercive environment that repels the indigenous Palestinian population, using armed settler militias to implement this, in one of the clearest manifestations of the functional exchange between the official institution and the settlers.

Shaaban explained that the year 2024 was distinguished by the legislative environment that embraced colonial terrorism, which was created and developed by the occupying state, through a set of laws and draft laws that it submitted for approval, which pertain to controlling and plundering Palestinian land, so that the result of all of this would be a real annexation and alleged sovereignty over Palestinian land.