Settlement Resistance Commission: The plan to encroach on Area (A) represents another serious shift added to the ongoing annexation steps

SadaNews - The Settlement Resistance Commission has warned of the dangers revealed by media reports regarding a colonial settlement plan presented by known settlement forums aiming to control about 100 strategic points within the areas classified as (A), considering it a qualitative development in the course of the Israeli colonial project aimed at undermining Palestinian geography and emptying international agreements of their content.

The head of the commission, Minister Muayid Shaaban, stated that this plan, led by settlement entities linked to the "Council of Settlement Farmers" and other settlement forums, cannot be read as a separate movement originating from marginal groups, but rather comes within the context of the deep transformations that the occupying state has witnessed in recent years, especially under the current fascist right-wing government that has come to power under the banner of "decisiveness," and carries an announced agenda based on entrenching Israeli control over the occupied Palestinian land and imposing the realities of effective annexation.

He added that this government has crossed many red lines and no longer hides its intention to target the foundations of Palestinian national identity, by fragmenting Palestinian geography, isolating cities, villages, and communities from one another, and transforming Palestinian areas into separate pockets lacking geographic and political cohesion. The discussion about encroaching on areas that are subject, according to internationally recognized agreements, to Palestinian civil and security control represents a direct assault on the established arrangements and an attempt to impose a new reality that abolishes the borders established by those agreements.

He emphasized that the danger of this plan lies not only in its field content but also in the significant transformation that has occurred in the nature and role of settlement organizations within the Israeli governance system. These organizations, which have played the role of pressure and incitement groups for decades, pushing towards expanding settlements and imposing realities, have today, under the extremist fascist right-wing government, become direct partners in decision-making, possessing the ability to influence government policies and receive financial, administrative, and security support to implement their agenda on the ground.

He explained that transforming radical settlement ideas and demands into practical plans that receive political sponsorship constitutes additional evidence of the integration of the settlement project with Israeli state institutions, moving from the phase of influencing decisions to the phase of producing the decision itself. This explains the escalation of settlement assaults, the expansion of colonial outposts, and the increasing attempts to control vital and strategic areas in the West Bank.

Shaaban confirmed that the international community is facing a real test, and that continuing to deal with these actions as transitory daily realities encourages the occupying state to continue undermining the international legal system and international legitimacy resolutions. These plans do not only target Palestinians, but they also target the foundations upon which international law is built, and the right of the Palestinian people to self-determination and to establish their independent state on their land.

He called on the international community and international legal and human rights institutions to take responsibility and take practical steps to stop these policies before the plans of annexation and fragmentation become a reality that is difficult to reverse, emphasizing that confronting the settlement project is not only about condemning its actions but also about stopping its political, legal, and field tools that allow it to expand and impose realities by force.