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The Israeli occupation authorities escalated the Judaization and Settlement War in the West Bank and seized 2522 dunums yesterday in order to displace their Palestinian owners and establish units
Settlement in violation of international resolutions, in particular Security Council resolution 2334 of 2016, which calls for an immediate end to all settlement activity in the Occupied Palestinian Territory.
The Israeli occupation forces seized 2,000 dunums of the village of Al-Jaba'a, southwest of Beit
Meat and 243 dunums of the land of the village of Surif northwest of Hebron, 129 dunums of the lands of the towns of Dhahiriya and Samu 'south of Hebron and 150 dunums of the land of Beit Liqya west of Ramallah.
A week ago, the Israeli occupation forces seized 409 dunums of the lands of the towns of Barta'a, Tora, Al-Arqa and Zebdeh in Jenin and announced that they would seize 3000 dunums of land east of Yatta south of Hebron to establish new settlement units.
The PLO National Office for the Defense of Land and Resistance of Settlements noted in a report that since the 10th of last month, the occupation authorities announced plans to establish 2342 new settlement units in the West Bank to expand settlements on Palestinian land, increasing the number of settlement units announced since At the beginning of this year to 8,337, an increase of nearly 50 percent compared to last year.
The Palestinian Foreign Ministry affirmed in a statement that the occupation's seizure of these lands, the continuation of its violations and the escalation of its settlement plans is a disregard for international legitimacy and its resolutions and reflects the indifference of the international community and the inability of the United Nations and its institutions to fulfill its obligations and fulfill its responsibilities towards the Palestinian people and their cause.
The Palestinian Foreign Ministry pointed out that the silence of the international community towards the American bias encourages the occupation to continue to violate international law and UN resolutions affirming the legitimate rights of the Palestinian people, including the right of return and the establishment of an independent state along the 1967 borders with Jerusalem as its capital.
Secretary General of the Palestinian National Initiative Mustafa Barghouthi said in a statement to the SANA reporter that the occupation continues to seize Palestinian lands as part of his plan to annex more West Bank lands, which Palestinians will fail to resist and hold on to their land. Repression by the occupation in violation of international laws and UN resolutions.
A member of the Political Bureau of the Palestinian People's Party, Ghassan Khatib, pointed out that the occupation continues its crimes with unlimited American support and considers that the current US administration is an opportunity to annex more Palestinian lands and demolish their homes and carry out the widest displacement process against them. On international laws and resolutions, in particular UN Security Council Resolution 2334.
Settlement expert Salah al-Khawaja explained that the occupation has divided the West Bank into 176 isolated areas and plans to seize 63 percent of it by expanding the apartheid wall, increasing the number of settlements, or annexing the Jordan Valley, which constitutes 28 percent of the West Bank.