Ramallah – Ma’an – The head of the Wall and Settlement Resistance Commission, Minister Mu’ayyad Shaaban, said that the Israeli occupation forces and settlers carried out 1,228 attacks during the month of August, which is one of the most dangerous peaks of the occupation’s violations that have been ongoing for a long time.
Shaaban added that the violations, which are rising to unprecedented rates, are no longer limited to a mere numerical or statistical peak, but have exceeded it to dangerous turns that warn of crimes that rise to the level of war crimes, as the occupying state persists in committing them, hiding behind the veil of war and the terrible aggression it is waging against our Palestinian people in all places where they are present.
The commission explained in its monthly report, ‘Occupation Violations and Colonial Expansion Procedures,’ that the entity represented by the occupation army carried out 1,024 attacks, while the settlers carried out 204 attacks, concentrated in the Jerusalem Governorat
e with 204 attacks, the Ramallah and Al-Bireh Governorate with 137 attacks, and Nablus with 135 attacks.
He pointed out that the attacks ranged from armed attacks on Palestinian villages, to imposing facts on the ground, field executions, vandalism and bulldozing of lands, uprooting of trees, seizure of 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 44 attacks, Ramallah and Al-Bireh Governorate with 39 attacks, Hebron Governorate with 39 attacks, and Bethlehem with 27 attacks.
He added that the settlers’ attacks led to the martyrdom of two citizens in the villages of Jit, east of Qalqilya, and Wadi Rahhal in the Bethlehem Governorate, in organized terrorist waves launched by the settlers’ militias on the two towns under the protection of the army.
Shaaban added that the settlers carried out 206 a
cts of vandalism and theft of Palestinian property, which affected vast areas of land, and stole 509 heads of sheep, and seized 9 vehicles, tractors, and other items. The settlers’ attacks also resulted in the uprooting of 477 trees, including 397 olive trees, in the governorates of Hebron, Salfit, Bethlehem, Nablus, and Ramallah.
He pointed out that the occupation’s plans to displace the Palestinians and impose a coercive and repellent environment by arming the settlers and granting them immunity, protection and training, in addition to what the military apparatuses in the occupying state do in terms of storming cities and villages, executions, systematic destruction of infrastructure, starving citizens and its persistence in imposing a system of collective punishment on the Palestinians, have crossed many red lines that, had it not been for the international silence and the flawed double standards, the occupation would not have continued to commit these horrific crimes in front of the eyes and ears of the
entire world, which is content with silence and complicity.
Shaaban warned that all the measures taken by the occupying state these days aim to impose a state of forced displacement on Palestinian communities in all places of Palestinian presence, calling on all Palestinian institutions, factions, unions and national labor forces to stand up to their supreme national responsibility by taking practical and direct measures to stand by our people in these communities, especially in the Palestinian Jordan Valley and Masafer Yatta, by activating protection committees and a large public presence, adding that any delay in this responsible national move would push the plans for displacement and expulsion of citizens forward.
Establishment of 8 new colonial outposts
Shaaban pointed out that since the beginning of last August, the settlers have established 8 new colonial outposts that are predominantly agricultural and pastoral in nature. These outposts were distributed by establishing 3 new colonial outposts on the
lands of the Bethlehem Governorate, 2 outposts on the lands of the Nablus Governorate, 2 in Salfit and 1 in Tulkarm. He stressed that the decision to establish the colonial outposts comes under directives from within the occupation ‘cabinet’ that sponsors the colonial settlement project and provides facilities to the settlers’ militias in order to implement plans to control the land and forcibly displace them, while the occupation government later volunteers to turn these procedures into a reality.
It seized 367 dunums of citizens’ land.
Shaaban said that the occupation authorities seized a total of 367 dunums of citizens’ lands in August through 5 military orders, including two announcements by the Blue Line crew, which is working to add new areas to previous announcements of seizure, and targeted lands in the Bethlehem and Hebron governorates. The first aims to settle the status of the Nahal Hilitz outpost, and the second is to expand the borders of the Migdal Oz settlement, as well as through 3 orders to
seize land for military and security purposes that targeted the Salfit and Ramallah governorates. These orders aimed to create a buffer zone around the Kiryat Netufim settlement, which is built on the lands of the villages of Haris and Qarawat Bani Hassan. The second order targeted the lands of the villages of Sinjil and Turmus Ayya, and the order aimed to modify the path of the security fence planned to be built on the lands of the two villages, while the third order targeted the lands of the villages of Haris and Deir Istiya in order to pave a security road connecting the settlements of Revava and Kiryat Netufim.
78 houses and facilities demolished and 74 others notified to demolish
Shaaban pointed out that the occupation authorities carried out 62 demolition operations last August, which affected 78 facilities, including 36 inhabited homes, 8 uninhabited ones, and 13 agricultural and other facilities, and were concentrated in the governorates of Jerusalem, Hebron, Ramallah, Nablus, Jenin, Bethlehem, Tuba
s and Tulkarm. It also notified the demolition of 74 homes and facilities in the governorates of Jerusalem, Bethlehem, Salfit, Tubas and Hebron.
Shaaban explained that among the notifications, 10 were administrative ones that were delivered to the residents of the village of Al-Malha in the eastern Bethlehem desert, which is classified as Area B, stressing that this danger constitutes a dangerous precedent that affects Palestinian construction in the nature reserve that is subject to the planning jurisdiction of the State of Palestine.
Source: Maan News Agency