The weekly report prepared by the National Office for the Defense of the Earth and Resistance to Settlement, showed that the crimes of settlers against our Palestinian people were the most severe this year, recording 256 attacks, including 50 carried out by the "pay the price" gangs Terrorist.
The office stated in its report, which was published today, Saturday, that these attacks were accompanied by statements and positions of the occupation leaders and government officials, which provided the atmosphere for settlers, and gave them the green light to commit more against the Palestinians, and the failure of settler leaders to condemn these attacks and their silence encouraged their escalation.
According to the report, there are fears of an increase in settler attacks, especially terrorist "paying the price" gangs, as Palestinian property is being destroyed, and racist expressions are on the walls, in an atmosphere reminiscent of those that prevailed prior to the incident of the burning of the Dawabsheh family in the village of "Douma" southeast of Nablus. 2015, in which three family members were killed.
He said: The Israeli Information Center for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories "B´Tselem" indicates that most of the settlers´ attacks are not punished in the Israeli courts, which means tacit approval of the Israeli army for these attacks.
The report indicated that, during his visit to the settlement of "Mitzpe Jericho" established on the land of citizens in Jericho, the Prime Minister of the occupation, Benjamin Netanyahu, pledged to a number of his ministers, settlement leaders, and religious students to apply sovereignty over the entire Jordan Valley region, with American support that he said is unlimited.
He added that Netanyahu said, "I see here the great enthusiasm and tremendous development within the settlement, so we will continue to work to strengthen settlements in all areas. This is the land of Israel, so the first thing we will do is implement our sovereignty here in the Jordan Valley and the surrounding area."
The report pointed out that the Minister of the Occupation Army, Naftali Bennett, also works as a strong support for the settlers. After he instructed him to work on establishing a new outpost in the heart of Hebron, he instructed the army to stop what he described as "Palestinian-European control" of Area C, which constitutes 60% From the West Bank, and to prevent construction in it.
Bennett ordered the army leadership to tighten their cooperation to implement the plan, and to take steps to reduce the broad European funding for Palestinian construction, which, without neutralizing it, could not take place, he said.
The report stated that, during the past week, settlers set fire to vehicles of citizens, and wrote anti-Arab slogans in the village of Farta´a, east of Qalqilya, and gangs targeting "paying the price" neighborhood of Al-Khalayleh, northwest of occupied Jerusalem, adjacent to the settlement of "Givat Zeev", crossed racist slogans and damaged tires 18 vehicles, and a racist slogan on them.
He said that there had been an increase in attacks by settlers from the "Bat Ayin" settlement in the "Gush Etzion" settlement compound, following the transfer of a group of the "youth hills" movement from the "Yitzhar" settlement near Nablus to the mentioned compound.
He added, that the occupation government published data and provided it with the US administration, according to an agreement concluded between the two parties, that pumping budgets for settlements has risen during the past ten years, that is, during Netanyahu´s tenure as prime minister since 2009.
He indicated that the budgets invested by the occupation government in the settlements in the West Bank, including occupied Jerusalem, amounted to 390 million shekels, which is equivalent to "107 million dollars" in the first quarter of this year, the highest in the last ten years.
The report stated that the occupation government allocated 1.4 billion shekels to settlements last year, including those that are built on the Golan Heights, and this amount is about 235 million shekels less than budgets for settlements in 2017.
And that the publication of these data coincides with a report of the Israeli "Peace Now" movement in which it indicated that the Israeli government spent between 2011 and 2016 up to 1.2 billion shekels annually on settlements.
And he considered that despite the international consensus on the illegitimacy of the Israeli settlement, and the adoption of Security Council Resolution 2334, which confirms its illegality, the Trump administration insists on its continued support to the Israeli occupation government in its settlement activities at the expense of Palestinian rights, as it attacked the American representative to the United Nations Kelly Kraft, the resolution during her intervention in a recent Security Council session on "the situation in the Middle East" including the Palestinian issue, and considered it directed "unfair criticism of Israel".
He explained that Kraft affirmed the Trump administration´s support for Israeli settlement expansion in the occupied Palestinian territories, in its response to the United Nations Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process Nikolai Miladinov, who informed the members of the Council during the same meeting that "Israel did not adhere to Resolution" 2334 ".
He noted that Mladenov reaffirmed that "the establishment of settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, has no legal basis and constitutes a flagrant violation under international law, as mentioned in Resolution 2334, and it must be stopped immediately and completely" at this time.
In addition, the United Nations confirmed in the report submitted to the said session that the number of settlement units that were submitted for plans to build in the Palestinian territories, or were approved during the current year amounted to 10,000 units compared to about 6800 in each of the past two years, and that since 2016 Plans or plans to establish more than 22,000 new settlement units in West Bank settlements, including East Jerusalem, have been approved, and tenders for the construction of 8,000 units have been issued.
In a provocative step that coincided with the UN Security Council’s discussions of Israeli settlement activities, the occupation authorities organized a tour of 23 ambassadors at the United Nations, which included a number of settlements in the occupied West Bank, and they met a settler leader, Yossi Dagan, and visited a factory in the “Borkan” industrial settlement Built on the territory of Salfit Governorate, this is the first time that ambassadors have undertaken such work.
On the other hand, he said, the United Nations Committee against All Forms of Racial Discrimination endorsed, for the first time, Israel´s practice of apartheid policies against the Palestinian people.
In its conclusions and recommendations, published after the regular session held in the Swiss city of Geneva, the Committee drew attention to the number of violations committed by Israel against the Palestinians and their fundamental rights through the racial discrimination that it has entrenched in its policies and legislation, such as the law of "admission committees and settlement policies" and "family unification". And others, stressing the illegality of the Israeli settlements in the West Bank, occupied Jerusalem and the occupied Syrian Golan, calling for a halt to the policies of forced displacement, home demolition, and the displacement of the Palestinian population.
The following are all the violations that were documented during the past week:
Occupied Jerusalem: The Israeli occupation authorities forced Nasser Abu Zuaiter, to demolish his house on his own, in the town of Jabal Al-Mukaber in the neighborhood of the cemetery in the southeast of the city, after he had given him a notice to demolish his house, otherwise she would carry out the demolition and force him to pay the financial costs.
Bulldozers belonging to the municipality of the occupation also demolished a house in Al-Issawiya, occupied Jerusalem, under the pretext of building without a permit, belonging to Al-Maqdisi Hatem Hussein Abu Riala.
The so-called so-called "Temple Communities" are preparing to carry out wide-ranging incursions into the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque during the coming week, to celebrate the so-called Jewish "Feast of the Hanukkah-Anwar", where organizations "Women for the Temple", "Students for the Temple" and "Program for the Temple" Heliba Al-Bibati and the Union of Temple Organizations in implementing a central biblical program within Al-Aqsa, by storming it throughout the days of Eid, which begins next Sunday.
Hebron: The Israeli occupation forces demolished and bulldozed the village of Deir Razih, near the town of Dura, south of Hebron, and demolished agricultural “barracks” in the village on the pretext of building without a permit, in addition to bulldozing Palestinian lands overlooking the bypass settlement road (No. 60).
It also seized the equipment of a blacksmith´s workshop, owned by Nidal and Youssef Abdel-Qader Al-Owawi, and prevented farmers in the immigration area east of the town from selling their agricultural crops near the main street, closed the entrances with barbed wire, and prevented citizens ’vehicles from stopping to buy their needs of fresh vegetables in the area .
Bethlehem: The settlers of “Sidi Bouaz”, which are located on the lands of the citizens in the Wadi Al-Ghout area called “Marah Saab,” in the town of Al-Khader, south of Bethlehem, uprooted more than 300 olive trees from a 30-donum area of ​​land belonging to Hisham al-Barmil, and seized them.
The occupation forces demolished a restaurant and a house in the "Makhoor" area in Beit Jala, with the help of military reinforcements belonging to the occupation centered on the entrance to the area, and began to demolish the two facilities owned by Ramzi Qaysia.
It also demolished a house in the town of Al-Khader, south of Bethlehem, owned by Samih Ahmed Salah, on the pretext of building without a permit, which covers an area of ​​about 120 square meters, and where his family resides, in the area of ​​"Khirbet Alia" south of the town, knowing that the land on which the house is located contains "Tabu" papers Kushan Turki.
Atallah Ibrahim Abayat (52 years), from the Kisan area, east of Bethlehem, was wounded, and described as minor, after settlers escaped dogs to him while working in his field.
A settler from the settlement of Beit Ayin also seized a cave located in the lands of Jamjoom, located between the town of Nahalin in the west, and Al-Jab´a in the south. Near the settlement of "Gush Etzion" settlement.
Nablus: The Israeli occupation forces prevented the citizens from rehabilitating the "Ceylon" spring in the village of Qaryut, and detained them and the equipment in their possession.
The occupation army also prevented citizens from Barqa from entering their lands northwest of Nablus, where the settlement "Homesh", which was evacuated in 2005, was established. The citizens tried to reach this area, but they were prevented by the soldiers.
Qalqilya: The occupation authorities are planning to control dozens of agricultural acres south of Qalqilya, where he announced the deposit of a new organizational plan in favor of the expansion of settlement street No. 55, near the settlement of "Alf Menashe" south of the city, threatening to seize tens of acres of agricultural nurseries located behind the annexation wall And racial expansion.
Tulkarm: Dozens of workers suffocated due to the tear gas fired by the occupation forces at the agricultural gate on the wall of racial annexation, west of Qaffin, north of the city, and a worker was shot on the agricultural gate near the Apartheid Wall - Akaba Gate - north of the town, while others were injured Throttling west.
Jenin: A group of settlers stormed the site of the abandoned settlement “Homesh”, south of Jenin Governorate, and spread on the surrounding hill, as settlers ambushed the citizens at the entrance to the mentioned settlement on Jenin Street - Nablus, and between the olive groves in the area between the two towns of Burqah and the way back.
Jordan Valley: The occupation forces set up an iron gate at the eastern entrance to Khirbet Al-Hadidiya in the Jordan Valley, to serve the settlers, and to prevent more than 40 Palestinian families, numbering more than 250 people, from Khirbet al-Hadidiya and gathering chickpeas from accessing their lands.
Settlers vandalized heavy equipment to contractor Salah Al-Zaid from Jenin while he worked on paving a road in the Jordan Valley, causing damage.
The occupation forces seized a bulldozer, for the citizen Jamal Nayef Abu Arra, while she was working in the Tubas plain and took her to the "Saoura" camp in the northern Jordan Valley. Daraghmeh and threatened to seize any agricultural tractor located in the area.
