The head of the Wall and Settlement Resistance Commission, Minister Mu’ayyad Shaaban, said that the Israeli occupation forces and settlers carried out 1,110 attacks during the month of July.
Shaaban explained in the commission’s monthly report, issued today, Saturday, on “occupation violations and colonial expansion measures,” that the occupation forces carried out 914 attacks, while the settlers carried out 196 attacks, concentrated in the Hebron Governorate with 226 attacks, the Nablus Governorate with 164, and the Jerusalem Governorate with 143 attacks.
He pointed out that the attacks ranged from imposing facts on the ground (seizing land and colonial expansion), to field executions, vandalism and bulldozing of land, uprooting trees, seizing property, closures, and barriers that sever the ties of Palestinian geography.
Houses and vehicles burned and hundreds of trees uprooted as a result of settler attacks
Shaaban pointed out that the settlers’ attacks were concentrated in Nablus Governorate with 58 at
tacks, Hebron Governorate with 50 attacks, and Ramallah and Al-Bireh Governorate with 28 attacks.
He stressed that the major, dangerous and unprecedented escalation of the occupation’s violations against the Palestinian land aims to completely undermine the political process, and thus eliminate the possibility of establishing a Palestinian state, noting that the Palestinian issue did not need international solidarity and intervention at this stage.
He stressed that the international community must rise in its positions to the level of the massacres committed against the Palestinians, whether against lives, or against land, given the large areas of confiscation, or against buildings, given what we are witnessing of the systematic and unprecedented demolition of Palestinian construction in all places where it is located, which portends more to come.
Shaaban explained that the size of the terrorist attack by the settlers demonstrates the extent of the powers granted to them by the official Israeli establishme
nt, and that the instructions issued from within the “occupation cabinet” to the settlers to carry out the attacks on the one hand and complete the plans on the other hand, revealed themselves as attacks and crimes.
Shaaban added that the settlers’ attacks led to the uprooting of 970 trees, including 870 olive trees in the governorates of Hebron, Salfit and Nablus.
4,500 dunams seized, 20 master plans for settlements approved, and five new buffer zones
The report indicated that the occupation authorities seized about 4,000 dunums of land in the Jericho Governorate in order to amend the borders of the Wadi Darja Nature Reserve along the Dead Sea, and declared 441 dunums as state land west of Ramallah, specifically the lands of the villages of Deir Ammar, Deir Qadis and Shabtin, in order to expand the settlements of Nili and Na’ali in the area.
He added that the occupation army issued a total of 11 orders to seize property for military and security purposes last July, through which it seized 62 dunums of ci
tizens’ lands. Five of these orders aimed to create buffer zones around the settlements of ‘Neve Nehemiah’ on the lands of Iskaka in the Salfit Governorate, ‘Itamar’ on the lands of Awarta and Rojeeb in the Nablus Governorate, ‘Rahalim’ on the lands of Al-Sawiya and Yitma in the Nablus Governorate, ‘Homesh’ on the lands of the village of Burqa, and ‘Kfar Tapuah’ on the lands of the villages of Yasuf and Za’tara in the Nablus Governorate.
In the same context, the head of the authority explained that the occupation authorities studied in July a total of 54 structural plans for the benefit of the settlements of the West Bank and Jerusalem, approved 20 of them, and deposited 33 plans for subsequent approval.
Shaaban pointed out that these plans, in addition to their great geopolitical impact, also resulted in settling the status of ‘legalizing’ 3 new colonial outposts in the Jordan Valley, Jericho and Hebron with the aim of transforming them into colonies that enjoy full colonial privileges, in addition to 11 o
ther outposts whose status has been settled since the beginning of the year.
135 homes and facilities demolished and 16 others notified of demolition
Shaaban pointed out that the occupation authorities carried out 98 demolition operations last July, which affected 135 facilities, including 62 inhabited homes, 14 uninhabited ones, and 12 agricultural and other facilities, and were concentrated in the governorates of Hebron, Jerusalem, Tulkarm, Bethlehem and Nablus. It also notified the demolition of 16 homes and facilities in the governorates of Jerusalem, Bethlehem, Salfit, Tubas and Hebron
Source: Maan News Agency