The occupation continues to implement annexation plans and violate international legitimacy decisions

Occupied Jerusalem - SANA

The National Bureau for Land Defense and Settlement Resistance of the Palestine Liberation Organization affirmed that the Israeli occupation continues to implement annexation plans in the West Bank in light of the international community's silence over its violation of international legitimacy resolutions, foremost of which is Security Council Resolution 2334 of 2016, which calls for the occupation to immediately stop all settlement operations on land Occupied Palestinian.

Ma'an News Agency quoted the office as saying in its weekly report issued today that the occupation authorities announced a new settlement plan in the occupied city of Jerusalem, which represents part of the annexation plans to install a new status quo on the ground, in a message to the new American administration and the entire international community that it implements its plans and accelerates settlement without restrictions.

The report indicated that the plan will be implemented in three phases, the first of which includes the establishment of thousands of settlement units on Palestinian lands to expand the settlement located in the east of occupied Jerusalem and connect it to a network of apartheid roads that do not allow Palestinians to pass through it with Jerusalem and with the rest of the settlements along the area extending to the outskirts of the Jordan Valley, and in the second it will lead To the displacement of thousands of Palestinians from villages east of occupied Jerusalem, such as Khan al-Ahmar and others, while the third stage includes the expansion of settlement operations to separate the northern occupied West Bank from its south completely.

The report indicated that the occupation authorities announced plans to expand a settlement established on Palestinian lands in the towns of Nahalin and Husan in Bethlehem, a settlement established on the lands of the villages of Deir Istiya and Haris in Salfit and a third established on the lands of the towns of Al-Jib and Beituniya in Ramallah and the establishment of two new settlement outposts on the lands of Awarta and Naqoura in Nablus. A settlement road was built to connect between a settlement built on the lands of Al-Bireh and another on the lands of the town of Qalandia in occupied Jerusalem.

The report pointed out that the occupation authorities continue to bulldoze Palestinian lands to construct a settlement road, which is the largest in the northern West Bank, with a length of 7.2 km to connect the settlements surrounding Nablus with the Za'tara Junction in the town of Hawara, south of the city, and from there to the Palestinian lands occupied in 1948, indicating that this road will consume thousands of dunams of agricultural land from Palestinian lands. In the towns of Huwara, Beita, Burin, Awarta, Yatta, Al-Sawiyah and Yasuf in Nablus.

The report indicated that the occupation forces bulldozed areas of Palestinian land in Al-Shuhada Street in the center of Hebron in order to expand settlement operations and seized 193 dunums of lands from the towns of Deir Dibwan and Ramon in Ramallah and demolished for the sixth time in a row the tents that the Palestinians had built in Khirbet Homsa in the Jordan Valley for housing after The occupation demolished their homes last November in order to displace them and expand the settlement operations, pointing out that the United Nations and European members of the Security Council affirmed at the conclusion of the Council session that the occupation must stop the demolition of Palestinian homes and properties in the West Bank immediately.

The report stated that the occupation forces demolished two homes in the town of Issawiya, several shops in the town of Sur Baher in Jerusalem, and several agricultural facilities in the town of Al-Khader, and a house in the town of Tuqu 'in Bethlehem.

The report indicated that settlers continue their attacks on West Bank cities and towns with the protection of the occupation forces, as they stormed the town of Kafel Haris in Salfit and Al-Tira neighborhood in Ramallah and attacked Palestinian homes and properties and cut down 90 olive trees in the villages of Al-Walaja and Kisan in Bethlehem and destroyed Palestinian agricultural lands in Khirbet Makhoul in The northern Jordan Valley and seized tracts of Palestinian lands in the town of Burin in Nablus.