Israeli occupation builds new settlements in the West Bank to change its demographic status
The Israeli occupation has started implementing a settlement building plan in different parts of the West Bank with the aim of changing the demographic and geographic status of this area amid the international community’s complete silence which encourages the occupation to commit more crimes in Palestine, mainly settlement expansion.
In its weekly report published on Saturday, the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) National Bureau for Defending the land and Resisting Settlements said that the Israeli settlers, under the protection of the occupation, have started to build 6 settlement outposts in the West Bank cities of Ramallah, Al-Khalil and Salfit.
The report added that the occupation has recently announced four plans to expand a number of settlements, the first includes seizing 1480 dunums of land in the villages of Jaloud and Qaryout, south of Nablus and in Termis’aya and Al-Magheer villages, north of Ramallah. The second plan provides for establishing 92 settlement units on an area of 60 dunums in Jeous town in Qalqilya. The third plan threatens with confiscating 104 dunums in the village of Ras Karkar in Ramallah, while the fourth plan will result in confiscating 375 dunums in village of Al-Nwei’ma in the Northern Jordan Valley.
Moreover, the report said, the occupation forces razed swathes of land in Wadi Al-Rababa neighborhood in Silwan town, south of Al-Aqsa Mosque to establish a settlement outpost. They also demolished several facilities southeast of occupied Al-Quds and a house in Ariha.
According to the report, the settlers continued with their attacks on the cities and towns of the West Bank. They stormed into several areas in Salfit, Nablus and the Northern Jordan Valley. They also attacked the Palestinians and their properties, seized swathes of land in Al-Khalil city, cut off tens of fruit trees in Bethlehem, Ramallah, Tulkarm and Salfit and uprooted 400 olive saplings in lands between Nablus and Tulkarm.
Hamda Mustafa