The weekly settlement report prepared by the National Office for the Defense of Land and Resistance of the PLO, a new development that reflects the use of the Israeli occupation authorities and the arms of the judiciary in the army and the so-called civil administration in Israel, various tricks and methods of fraud To control the lands of Palestinian citizens and public property in the State of Palestine under occupation.
While Benjamin Netanyahu stated his aspiration to impose Israeli sovereignty over settlements, the Jordan Valley, and the northern Dead Sea, a team of legal advisers from the Ministry of Security and the Army prepared a legal view and recommendations that would allow settlers, in their own right, to own land in the occupied West Bank, in a new chapter of monument and fraud. To steal Palestinian land in line with Israeli annexation plans by allowing the settlers to directly buy land in the West Bank, in a new step that settlers have waited for years after complaints that the law in the West Bank curbs enticement. The desired settlement and considered Israeli sources as an unprecedented move, has been deposited and the legal point of view and recommendations to the Deputy Attorney General table, Erez Kamenets, which is expected to be approved, with the support of the Chancellor Avihai Mandelblit.
According to the report, in the meantime, professional staff, lawyers in the Israeli army and the Israeli Ministry of Defense were asked to examine whether the restrictions on the purchase of land in the West Bank by settlers could be lifted. This means allowing each settler to buy land in the West Bank, where the "Civil Administration" continues to maintain and control the land registry, allowing it to collude with the settlers in taking over Palestinian land and robbing citizens of their property.
It is worth mentioning that the settlers are not allowed to buy land directly in the West Bank, where these deals are usually done through Zionist brokerage companies and procedures that require the approval of the Civil Administration of the occupation, in accordance with the law in force so far, a military order based on Jordanian law adopted before 1967 This prevents direct purchase of West Bank land for non-Palestinians or Jordanians.
At the same time, the report noted that plans to expand Israeli settlement activities in the occupied West Bank, including Jerusalem, did not stop. As part of the settlement expansion, settlers set up a new outpost on Jabal al-Mentar in the desert of Jerusalem, east of the eastern town of Sawahra. They placed "caravans", water barrels, umbrellas and water taps in preparation for the seizure of hundreds of dunums under the pretext of being "state property".
The settlers razed land located behind the annexation and expansion wall in the town of Abu Dis, southeast of Jerusalem, in order to promote settlement and the establishment of outposts in this area. The demolition of land is part of a plan to expand and accelerate settlement activity in the West Bank, including Jerusalem, in order to Judaize and control all neighborhoods surrounding it through the establishment, establishment and implementation of several settlement projects. In response, an open sit-in was announced at the sit-in tent in Al-Mentar area of ​​the Badia of Jerusalem.
In 2012, the Israeli occupation authorities announced the seizure of land in the area to build a settlement neighborhood along the apartheid wall located on the lands of Abu Dis east of Jerusalem on the isolated lands between the towns of Abu Dis and Jebel Mukaber. Since that declaration, settler groups have been trying to take control of these lands to begin construction of this settlement, which overlooks Al-Aqsa and Jerusalem. A number of settlers tried to put "Container" in the area of ​​East Sawahra, south of the settlement of "Kedar", but the response of the people of the town and Bedouin in this area prevented it.
In Qalqilya, the Israeli occupation forces razed areas of agricultural land in the village of Hajja, east of Qalqilya, in an estimated area of ​​145 dunums, in order to expand the industrial zone in the settlement of "Karni Shomron", adjacent to the village planted with olive trees and owned by five families in the village. Factories will be set up in the industrial zone called Adirat, adjacent to the lands of the citizens.
In the Bethlehem governorate, the Israeli occupation authorities closed the historical land road east of Bethlehem, which connects to the Dead Sea under the pretext that it is an area of ​​barbed wire with a length of about (10) km.This will deprive citizens of access to their land and thus emigrate and seize it for settlement ambitions. It is noteworthy that the area of ​​Al-Fardis and its surroundings has been subjected for years to a settlement attack and attacks, as happened in the gathering "Jeb Al-Dhib" and Tahadi 5 school, and the confiscation of land and the seizure of solar panels and the dangers of houses in the neighborhood Zawahra.
On the other hand, the attacks carried out by the Israeli terrorist organizations, which are based in the settlement of Yitzhar and a large number of outposts, especially those deployed in Nablus, against unarmed Palestinian citizens in their safe villages. To the south of Nablus, settlers from the Yitzhar settlement, which is the center of terrorist activities carried out by Jewish terrorist organizations in the area, continued to assault settlers from a number of houses in the village of Einbous. Dozens of extremist settlers attacked houses in the northern area of ​​the town under the protection of the Israeli occupation forces. Residents rushed to repel the settlers´ attack, and clashes erupted, as soldiers fired tear gas canisters, causing a number of citizens suffocated, and in the same area and from the same outposts that committed the crime of burning Dawabshah family in 2017 settlers damaged vehicles tires and stepped racist slogans in the village Always south of Nablus. The house, in which the settlers wrote racist slogans, is owned by Murad Ahmed Dawabsheh.
In Hebron, settlers continue their orgy. Israeli settlers from Kiryat Arba settlers on Palestinian lands and properties east of Hebron under the protection of the Israeli occupation forces attacked Palestinian houses in Al-Harika neighborhood in Hebron and threw stones and bottles at them. And panic among children. Dozens of settlers, accompanied by the Israeli army, also toured a number of mountain slopes to the west of Dura, south of Hebron, in the Tarousa area.
Meanwhile, the Israeli far-right Regevim launched an incitement campaign to influence an official Israeli decision on a school built in the Samu area south of Hebron. According to the right-wing movement, the school received "legal protection" under the guise of a "distorted interpretation of the law regulating construction in Area C." Dozens of settlers stormed the archaeological area of ​​Gedur in the town of Beit Ummar in Hebron, orchestrated the protection of the Israeli occupation forces, and held their Talmudic prayers in the area. Region.
In a new step of political significance, the Israeli occupation government held a session in the Palestinian valleys and decided unanimously to legitimize the outpost "Mofot Jericho" located in the southern Jordan Valley north of the city of Jericho, which was established in 1999, and was classified as illegal outposts Settlement outpost to an Israeli-recognized settlement after the legal advisor to the Israeli government, Avhay Mandelblit, allowed it to take this step two days before the Knesset elections, after being informed of the importance of its implementation at this particular stage and before the announcement of the peace plan. The settlers welcomed the legalization of the outpost "Mofot Yericho" and stressed that the regulation of the legal status of the outpost in this region is key to the continuation of the settlement.
"Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has informed the US administration of his pledge to annex the occupied Jordan Valley, and the administration sees no contradiction with a future political settlement," a State Department official said. Netanyahu has said there is a historic opportunity to impose sovereignty on West Bank settlements, a reference to President Trump as the current US president, and claimed that President Trump would present "the status of the century" immediately after the Israeli elections, and that he was respectful to President Trump. Believing in friendship with his administration, he will wait for the peace plan to be issued to see how far he can proceed with his project in coordination with the United States.
Not only did Netanyahu declare his intention to impose sovereignty on the Palestinian Jordan Valley, he stressed that he had told President Trump that he planned to extend sovereignty over all settlement blocs, land (and surrounding) and all settlements and sites of importance from a security or heritage perspective to Israel, and that he also intends to extend Israeli sovereignty over The city of Hebron and the settlement of Kiryat Arba as well. Netanyahu said in an interview with Army Radio: "We came to Hebron to express victory."
The European Union, in turn, reiterated that all settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, are illegal under international law. ”He called on Israel to end all settlement activities and dismantle outposts erected since March 2001, in line with previous commitments and stressed that it would not Recognizes any changes in the pre-1967 borders, including those related to Jerusalem, other than those agreed by the parties, "said the Israeli government after the Israeli government announced the establishment of a new settlement," Mofot Yerejo, "which is currently a settlement outpost in the Jordan Valley.
The weekly violations documented by the National Office for the Defense of Land were as follows in the reporting period:
JERUSALEM: The Israeli occupation authorities were notified of the removal of a sit-in tent erected by activists from the Popular Resistance and the Wall and Settlement Authority near the settlement outpost set up by settlers in the desert of East Jerusalem. The armed settlers were placed on the fifteenth of this month, "caravans", umbrellas and water pipes, in the region in preparation for the takeover.
And distributed the municipality of the occupation occupation demolition notices in the town of Issawiya, under the pretext of building without the permission of the municipality of the occupation has photographed residential facilities and take the full measurements, note that most of the facilities are inhabited.
Hebron: Dozens of settlers, under the protection of the Israeli army, stormed the Bab al-Zawiya area and Be´er Sheva Street in the center of Hebron, under the protection of the Israeli army, which closed the area and prevented citizens from traveling to secure the settlers´ access to what they call the Hebron tomb.
Clashes erupted in the city of Halhoul, north of Hebron, after a number of settlers stormed the Nabi Younis Mosque to perform Talmudic rituals. Wafa "famous celebrities and forced him to leave the area.
Bethlehem: The Israeli occupation forces demolished a house and two agricultural rooms and bulldozed a street in Al-Walaja village, northwest of Bethlehem. According to a youth activist, Ibrahim Awadallah, Israeli occupying forces accompanied by bulldozers moved into ´Ain Jweiza and Khallet al-Hoor areas and demolished a house belonging to Mustafa´ Abed Rabbo. He added that the bulldozers destroyed a road leading to the Ain Jweiza neighborhood in the center of the town, adding that there are 180 houses in the village that handed the owners notice of demolition and stop the construction under the pretext of lack of authorization.
Ramallah: A group of settlers attacked Palestinian farmers near Ramallah. Eyewitnesses said that a group of settlers attacked a number of farmers while working on their land near the town of "Barqa" east of Ramallah, injuring a farmer in the head and described the farmer´s wounds as "minor".
Witnesses added that a number of Palestinian vehicles were stoned by settlers, causing material damage. In addition, a child was seriously injured and others were injured, during the Israeli incursion into the village of Al-Mazra´a Al-Gharbiya, north of Ramallah. According to eyewitnesses, the child was injured after a number of settlers, accompanied by the Israeli occupation forces, stormed the village.
Nablus: Israeli occupation forces stormed the town of Sebastia north of Nablus and removed the flagpole erected near the archaeological site and blew up the mast more than once, under the pretext that it was in areas classified as "C".
Salfit: The Israeli authorities executed olive trees in the village of Bruqin, west of Salfit. According to Marwan Abdel Rahman, the head of the village council of Burqin, the Israeli authorities cut down about 100 olive trees in the area of ​​Khirbet Qarqash, northeast of the village.
Tulkarm: The Israeli occupation forces destroyed the agricultural contents of Brix in the town of Zeta, north of Tulkarm, in an agricultural land near the Apartheid Wall and demanded the owner of the agricultural land to remove the entire contents of Brix.
Qalqilya: A group of settlers attacked the house of Ibrahim Amin Jaber, located at the entrance of Kafr Laqef town, and tried to harass the owner of the house east of Qalqilya.
Jenin: The Israeli occupation forces were notified of stopping construction in houses and "Barakat" in the isolated town of Barta´a behind the apartheid wall southwest of Jenin. The Israeli occupation forces stormed the town and handed over eight citizens to stop the construction of their houses and "Baraksathm", in preparation for demolition on the pretext of non-licensing. And known from the owners: known Asaad Qabha, and Abdul Raouf Asaad Qabha, and supporter Saleh Qabha, Osama Jamil Qabha, and the struggle of Mohammed Khader Qabha.
The Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) demolished two agricultural structures, owned by Rami Qalalwa, in the village of Atouf, and seized a farm tractor in Ras al-Ahmar, east of Tammoun, southeast of Tubas.
Israeli occupying forces have also closed a number of water holes in the village of Bardala in the northern Jordan Valley.
