The head of the Wall and Settlement Resistance Commission, Muayyad Shaaban, said today, Thursday, “The Israeli occupation authorities renewed the order to seize 350 dunums of citizens’ lands in the villages of Qatna, Al-Qubayba, and Beit Anan, northwest of Jerusalem, and the town of Beit Liqya, west of Ramallah.”

Shaaban added in a press statement, “The occupation seized this land in 2004, under the pretext of using it for military purposes, while preventing citizens from accessing or using it, within the framework of strengthening apartheid policies and expanding the settlement project.”

He stressed that the occupation's control over citizens' lands violates the most basic rules of international law and international resolutions, which criminalize settlement and control over citizens' lands.

He continued: “Since 2014, the occupying state has issued a total of 85 military orders requiring the seizure of 1,822 dunums of citizens’ land for military purposes, most of which required the establishment or expansion of military points and sites, or for the purpose of constructing roads for the occupying army to follow, while it was issued during the period There are a total of 226 orders requiring the renewal of previous orders, issued a decade or two ago, whose specific expiration had expired according to the military decision, but the occupying state, instead of returning them to their owners, renewed these orders in reference to a clear desire by the occupying state to continue to control the earth".

Shaaban warned of the danger of the occupying state bending the system of laws in effect in the Palestinian territories prior to the Israeli occupation in 1967 to its advantage, and to the benefit of its settlement project supported by the far-right forces ruling the occupying state, calling on citizens to follow up on this type of issues through the Wall and Settlement Resistance Commission, in order to nullify them. Exposing the true face of the occupation.