Wall and Settlement Resistance Commission: Occupation Authorities Push 25 New Structural Plans to Expand Settlements in the West Bank

SadaNews - The Wall and Settlement Resistance Commission stated that "the planning bodies affiliated with the occupying civil administration have pushed since the beginning of July 25 structural plans in favor of expanding settlements in the West Bank."

The Chairman of the Commission, Muayad Shaaban, said in a statement issued today, Tuesday, that this intensive push for structural plans for the settlements falls within the framework of a race against time to impose facts on the Palestinian land, including the expansion of existing settlements, regularization and legitimization of colonial outposts, and tightening the life of Palestinian citizens through access restrictions to their lands.

Shaaban added, "The plans that were studied resulted in the submission of 10 structural plans for later approval, while these bodies approved 15 new plans."

Shaaban indicated that the approved plans aim to build 899 new settlement units, while the structural plans indicated a total of 586 new settlement units submitted for later approval.

Shaaban pointed out that among the plans studied, one concerns the regularization of the status of the colonial outpost "Givat Hanan" located south of Hebron Governorate, near the "Susya" settlement, through the submission of a structural plan aimed at building 107 new settlement units on an area of 134 dunams of citizens' lands.

The "Givat Hanan" settlement outpost was established in 2019 on citizens' lands near the Sha'ab al-Batum community in Masafer Yatta, and has since turned into a launch point for executing terrorist assaults aimed at forcibly displacing citizens from Masafer Yatta, and as a means to seize lands and pastures.

Shaaban added that among the plans approved this month is one related to the expansion of the "Nili" settlement built on citizens' lands west of Ramallah, specifically in the lands of Deir Qaddis village, and that the approval aiming to transform an area of 766 dunams into buildable areas within the settlement demonstrates the occupation's intention to implement a systematic expansion of this settlement, as well as regarding the "Rimonim" settlement established on citizens' lands in the village of Deir Jarir east of Ramallah, where a structural plan was approved in favor of the settlement aiming for a significant expansion of 253 dunams and the construction of 136 new settlement units there.

Shaaban continued that the occupying state is proceeding with imposing facts on the Palestinian geography that will tear apart Palestinian land and impose a system of Bantustans to nullify the possibility of establishing a Palestinian state in the future.

He emphasized that what the occupying state is doing on the ground constitutes gross violations of the simplest rules of human rights, not only violating the capabilities and inalienable rights of the Palestinian people, but also intensifying its violations against international community decisions and United Nations resolutions and the announced legal positions regarding the matter.