Occupied Jerusalem - SANA
The Israeli occupation intensifies the bulldozing of Palestinian lands in the city of Nablus in the West Bank to construct a settlement road linking the outposts built on its lands with those in its vicinity and on the Palestinian lands occupied in 1948, which threatens to permanently eliminate any opportunity to establish a geographically connected Palestinian state.
The National Bureau for Land Defense and Settlement Resistance of the Palestine Liberation Organization stated in its report released today that the occupation authorities, in the framework of implementing colonial annexation plans, continue to sweep and uproot trees in the town of Hawara, south of Nablus, to establish a settlement road of about 7 km long and seize 406 dunums of villages' lands. And the towns of Huwara, Burin, Awarta, Odla, and Beta, south of Nablus, with the aim of linking the outposts established in the vicinity of the city with those established in its heart, in addition to linking them to the settlements built on the Palestinian territories occupied in 1948, indicating that this road is one of the most dangerous settlement plans of the occupation because it completely eliminates any opportunity to establish A contiguous Palestinian state geographically.
The report pointed out that the occupation is sweeping large areas of Palestinian land in Khirbet al-Hama in the northern Jordan Valley, in preparation for paving roads linking a number of settlement outposts in the area. It also announced plans to establish 410 settlement units on Palestinian lands in the towns of Ramin and Beit Lid east of Tulkarm and 32 settlement units on ruined lands. Al-Hilweh in the northern Jordan Valley and seized 147 dunums of Palestinian land in the towns of Nahalin and Husan in Bethlehem to expand settlement operations.
The report indicated that the occupation forces demolished a house in Jabal Al Mukaber in Jerusalem and ordered the demolition of 13 houses in the town of Qabalan, south of Nablus, and prevented the Palestinians from completing the restoration work of the Islamic cemetery in the town of Yatta, south of Hebron.
The report indicated that settlers continue their attacks on the cities and towns of the West Bank with the protection of the occupation forces, as they escalated their incursions into the Al-Aqsa Mosque and the Old City in occupied Jerusalem and attacked Palestinians and their properties. They also stormed Palestinian shops in the Old City of Hebron and prevented Palestinian farmers from entering their lands in the towns of Dhahiriya and Masafer Yatta in the south. Hebron and burned dozens of olive trees and fruit trees in the towns of Beit Fajjar, Walaja, and Jabal Ruwaisat in Bethlehem. They also destroyed the water reservoir that feeds the town of Asira al-Qibliya in Nablus and stormed the archaeological area in the town of Sebastia, north of it, and attacked Palestinian vehicles on the Jenin Nablus road.
