The National Bureau for Land Defense and Settlement Resistance said that the Israeli government continues the policy of imposing more new settlements before the end of the period of the outgoing President Donald Trump.
In its weekly report, issued on Saturday, the National Bureau stated that the end of the year 2020 and the beginning of the new year 2021 witnessed an escalation in settlement activities, plans, and attacks on Palestinian people and their property.
It pointed out that the Israeli authorities and the Planning Council affiliated with the Israeli army had approved settlement plans through which large swathes of Palestinian lands were seized.
Moreover, the report highlighted that the Israeli Ministry of Interior published an announcement issued by the Supreme Planning Council of the Civil Administration regarding the new settlement plan, which confiscates 1008 dunums of lands of the Palestinian village of Azzun in the Qalqilya district in favor of settlement construction.
The new settlement plan, No. / 13/8/115, includes the construction of 1406 new settlement units in the southeast of the "El Fei Menashe" settlement, said the report.
In 2017, the Israeli authorities began preparing the infrastructure for the target site by bulldozing lands and constructing internal roads to facilitate the work of contracting companies for the settlement project later.
According to the National Bureau, last week, the Israeli forces destroyed large areas of land planted with olive trees in the town of Deir Ballut, west of Salfit, under the pretext that they are “state lands”.
In Jerusalem, the Israeli municipality approved, in its last session, a plan to establish a large dumpsite to collect, sort, and burn waste on private Palestinian land between the settlement of “Ma'ale Adumim” and the “Mishor Adumim” industrial zone, and the municipality and the Israeli government agreed to establish a dump.
It also said that last week, Israeli forces and settlers clashed with Palestinians on various areas in the West Bank, resulting in many casualties among Palestinian citizens.
Source : Safa