Today, Sunday, the Israeli occupation authorities seized 57.79 dunums of Palestinian land in the Bethlehem Governorate, specifically in the areas of Al-Khader, Artas, Bethlehem, and Beit Ummar in the Hebron Governorate.

The Wall and Settlement Resistance Commission said that the occupation authorities, through what is called a "military order to seize land for military purposes, numbered (T/3/25)," seized 57.79 dunums with the aim of creating a buffer zone around the Efrata settlement, which is built on citizens' lands in the governorate.

The Commission noted that the occupying state, through a series of military orders, established a total of 14 buffer zones around a group of settlements. Through this measure, it aims to prevent citizens from accessing vast areas under the pretext of military orders, paving the way for permanent control over them in the future.

She noted that the so-called Occupation Land Authority had issued two large construction tenders last February, aiming to build 974 new colonial units, with the aim of establishing a new colonial neighborhood affiliated with the Efrat settlement, a matter the authority had previously addressed.

Maps of the military order issued today indicate that the buffer zone the occupying state seeks to establish around the settlement also surrounds the planned neighborhood, in addition to two colonial outposts that have been transformed into neighborhoods to the north of the settlement: Givat Hadagan and Givat Hatamar.