Occupied Jerusalem - SANA
The Israeli occupation continues to seize Palestinian lands and expand settlement operations in the West Bank amidst the silence of the international community over its flagrant violations of international legitimacy resolutions, foremost of which is Security Council Resolution 2334, which affirms the illegality of settlement in the occupied Palestinian territories and demands that it be stopped.
The National Bureau for Land Defense and Settlement Resistance of the Palestine Liberation Organization said in its weekly report released today: Settlement is spreading like a cancer in the West Bank, as the occupation authorities accelerate the processes of seizing lands, expanding settlements and establishing settlement roads that link them with settlements built on the occupied Palestinian lands in 1948 and besieging Palestinians. In areas isolated from each other, amid clear American silence, timid European criticism, and unprecedented international impotence.
The report indicated that the occupation authorities announced a plan to establish 392 settlement units on the lands of the towns of Al-Khader in Bethlehem and Ramin in Tulkarm and Al-Dhahriya in Hebron. They also seized 1,152 dunums of Palestinian lands in Nablus, Ramallah and Al-Bireh to expand a number of settlements, while the occupation forces swept areas of land south of the village. As long as in Nablus to expand one of the settlements.
The report pointed to the occupation’s attempts to displace Palestinians from the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood in occupied Jerusalem despite international condemnations, and it quoted the spokesperson for the Secretary-General of the United Nations, Stephane Dujarric as saying in a press conference held last week: “The United Nations considers all Israeli settlement operations, including evacuation and demolition, as illegal. Under international law ”.
The report indicated that settlers continue their attacks on West Bank cities and towns with the protection of the occupation forces, as they intensified their incursions into the Old City and the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood in occupied Jerusalem, and shot unarmed Palestinians present in the neighborhood in solidarity with the families threatened to evacuate their homes, which led to the injury of dozens and stormed Palestinian agricultural lands in the area. Al Baqaa, east of Hebron, vandalized crops, and attacked Palestinian homes and properties in the towns of Farata in Qalqilya, Burin, and Qasra in Nablus, seized areas of Jabal Sabih lands in Nablus to establish an outpost and attacked Palestinian vehicles on the road between Nablus and Ramallah, which resulted in the injury of a Palestinian woman and causing damage Physical number of vehicles.