Israeli occupation authorities today decided to seize a tract of land belonging to the villagers of Sanniriya, south of Qalqiliya city, according to an anti-settlement activist. Head of the Colonization and Wall Resistance Commission’s Documentation and Publication Department Amir Daoud said that the occupation authorities decided to take over 52 donums of land belonging to the northern West Bank village ‘for military purposes’. He added that the decision would be implemented by the end of 2027 and would be renewable. Over 700,000 Israelis live in Jewish-only settlements across occupied East Jerusalem and the West Bank in violation of international law. The number of settlers has almost tripled since the Oslo Accords of 1993, when settlers’ number estimated 252,000. Illegal colonial settlements have leapt from 144 to 515 in that time. Israel’s nation-state law that passed last July stated that building and strengthening settlements as a ‘national interest.’

Source: Palestine News & Information Agency (WAFA)