Settlement is spreading like cancer in OPT, amid shy European criticism and clear American silence

By: Madeeha Al-A’raj

The National Bureau for defending land and resisting settlements ( nbprs ) stated in its latest weekly report , that robbery and building operations on Palestinian lands and transferring their agricultural to State lands in preparation for shifting them to settlements purposes continue like those that were in South Africa during the era of the defunct apartheid regime in the midst of an unprecedented international deficit, to prepare the focus, prepare the rural areas, and roads linked to the main roads in Israel without the need to pass to pass through the Palestinian residential areas.
In actual implementation of a bill that would allow the settlement of the status of outposts, the Israeli authorities deposited three settlement plans on an area of 432.1 dunums to build hundreds of settlement units. The so-called Settlement Sub-Committee announced the deposit of the detailed outline plan n 66/5/410 for the settlement of Efrat that was built on the lands of Al-Khader village on an area of 128.5 dunums to establish 193 settlement units and public buildings. It also announced the deposit of the detailed structural plan n 290 dunums for the establishment of 179 settlement units, public buildings and institutions, and the deposit of the detailed outline plan n 5/514 for the settlement of Shamiya built on the lands of the village of Al-Dhahriya in the Hebron Governorate on an area of 13.6 dunums for the establishment of 20 settlement units and the effective implementation of the detailed organizational plan n Yesh / 841 for the construction of a road linking the settlement of Rahim, which was built on the lands of the village of Al-Sawiyah in Nablus on an area of 5 dunums.
Within the context, the settlers rebuilt the random settlement outpost, Abitar, which was built near the Za’tarah checkpoint in the past, and it was evacuated and moved to the hill with residential trailers, which was considered unfamiliar in comparison with their previous activities. To the announcement of the establishment of 10,000 housing units in the West Bank, as a Zionist response to the implementation of operations against settlers at the Za tara checkpoint.
On the other hand, the President of the United Nations General Assembly, Volkan Bozkir, held a press conference at the United Nations headquarters in New York, in which he commented on the recent report of the International Human Rights Watch organization, which accused the Israeli authorities of practicing crimes of apartheid and persecution against Palestinians, and thus committing crimes against humanity, he said, “The Palestinian people have been living under occupation for more than fifty years, and such a continuous occupation has multiple consequences and faces.
The international community must ensure that the human rights of the Palestinians are respected, until the two-state solution is achieved. In a separate context, the spokesperson for the United Nations Secretary-General, Stephane Dujarric, confirmed that the United Nations continues to consider all Israeli settlement activities including the evacuation and demolition, as illegal under international law. In response to questions regarding the displacement of dozens of Palestinian families from the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood in occupied Jerusalem, the issuance of judicial orders from the Israeli courts, and the occupation of Palestinian homes by settlers, Dujarric recalled Security Council Resolution 2334 (2016) related to settlements, which called on Israel again to stop settlement in the occupied Palestinian territories, including In Jerusalem, he affirmed that "the international community will not recognize any change that occurs to the 1967 borders, including those related to Jerusalem, except for those that are reached between the parties through negotiations."

List of Israeli Assaults over the Last Week Documented by the National Bureau:
Jerusalem:
• Shooting Palestinian youths in the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood who were in solidarity with the families threatened with eviction in favor of the settlers there.
• Moving Bin Ghafeer office to Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood.
• About 30,000 settlers storm the blessed Al-Aqsa on the 28th of the blessed month of Ramadan to incursions into Al-Aqsa. The closure of Al-Wad Road and a number of streets in the Old City under the pretext of securing.
Bethlehem:

• Demolishing a car wash house located between the town of Al-Khader and the city of Beit Jala, under the pretext of not being licensed, and in the town of Tuqu east of Bethlehem, the occupation forces seized lands in the town near the camp of the occupation army at the northern entrance to the town.

Tulkarm:
• Torching lands adjacent to the Annexation and Segregation Wall in the Faroon town south of Tulkarm, as the occupation forces fired sound bombs and tear gas

Qalqilia:
• Injuring a citizen in his head after being attacked by settlers while he was grazing sheep on his land in the town of Farata, east of Qalqilya.

Jordan Valley:
• Storming Khirbet Homs al-Fawqa and al-Baqi’a Plain in the northern Jordan Valley, and soldiers inspected lands and compared them to maps in their possession

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