Israeli occupation builds new roads for settlements breaking up the West Bank towns

The Israeli occupation authorities have stepped up their Judaization and settlement building activities in the occupied Palestinian territories in preparation for implementing the Israeli colonial annexation schemes in the West Bank. The occupation is doing so amid the silence and inaction of the international community towards the occupation’s violations of the Palestinian people’s rights, especially the right to establish an independent Palestinian state on the borders of June 4, 1967 with al-Quds as its capital.

The PLO’s National Bureau for Defending Land and Resisting Settlements said in a report that the occupation authorities moved from expanding settlements to constructing roads for these settlements, closing the gates leading to the West Bank towns in order to isolate them while linking the settlements to each other. The aim is to implement the annexation plan provided in the so-called “Deal of the Century” which aims at liquidating the Palestinian cause.

 More than 1,400 km long roads, built by the occupation in al-Quds and in the depth of the occupied West Bank, have confiscated large areas of Palestinian land. Building these roads reflects the occupation’s racism against the Palestinians who are prevented from passing through these roads that used to be part of their land.

The occupation has recently expanded a road to link the settlements built on the Palestinian land on the north of the West Bank to those built on the south of it. This will lead the occupation to capture wide areas of land between the city of al-Quds and Bethlehem.

Head of the Colonization and Apartheid Wall Resistance Commission Walid Assaf explained in a statement to SANA reporter that the occupation’s construction of new tunnels and settlement roads in al-Quds and the occupied West Bank is a practical embodiment of the colonial annexation scheme that produces Palestinian towns that are isolated from each other by settlements in implementation of the “Deal of the Century”.

Assaf affirmed that the Palestinian people will continue their steadfastness and adherence to their land and will press ahead with their struggle against the occupation to foil its Judaization schemes.

On his part, Coordinator of the Popular Committee for Resisting the Apartheid Wall and Settlement Salah Al-Khawaja emphasized that the occupation authorities, in addition to expanding the roads, are working to establish 15 thousand settlement units between the cities of al-Quds and Bethlehem within the framework of implementing a dangerous scheme included in the terms of the Deal of the Century and which aims at seizing 12 percent of the occupied West Bank area.

Hamda Mustafa