Occupied Jerusalem-Sana
The National Office for the Defense of the Earth and Resistance to Settlement, affiliated to the Palestine Liberation Organization, affirmed that the American administration continues to sided with the Israeli occupation entity and support its settlement colonial designs in violation of international law and international legitimacy resolutions.
The Ma'an news agency quoted the office’s weekly report issued today as saying that US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo repeated in a recorded speech broadcast at a conference held by the occupation authorities in occupied Jerusalem last week that the American administration does not consider that Israeli settlements violate international law as the American ambassador to the occupation entity David Friedman During a press conference with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, his statements about annexing parts of the West Bank in disregard of all international resolutions, especially Security Council Resolution 2334 of 2016, which calls for the occupation to immediately halt all settlement operations on the Palestinian territory Linnaean occupied.
The report indicated that the occupation authorities announced a plan to establish 1936 settlement units in the West Bank and seize 100 dunums of Palestinian land in Khalat al-Eidah, east of Hebron, and dozens of acres in the town of Jabal al-Mukaber in occupied Jerusalem, and 35 dunums in the areas of Umm Laqiya and Suwaida, the Khalat Hamad area and al-Muzhouqh in the northern Jordan Valley to expand operations Settlement.
The report pointed out that the occupation authorities prevented Palestinian farmers from entering 300 dunums of their agricultural lands in the Jordan Valley, within the framework of its colonial plans to annex them.
The report stated that the occupation forces demolished three houses in the occupied Jerusalem town of Jabal Al-Mukaber, nine in the village of Al-Auja in Jericho, and an agricultural facility in the village of Ras Karkar, west of Ramallah, and was also notified of the demolition of four houses east of the town of Yatta, south of Hebron.
The report indicated that the settlers continue their attacks on West Bank cities and towns with the protection of the occupation forces, where they cut 50 olive trees east of the Al-Sawiya village in the city of Nablus and stormed the archaeological area in the town of Sebastia in the north and the town of Kifl Haris north of Salfit and assaulted Palestinian homes and properties.