Ramallah – Ma’an – Head of the Wall and Settlement Resistance Committee, Moayed Shaaban, said that the Israeli occupation forces and colonists carried out 1,242 attacks during the month of last April.
Shaaban explained in the commission’s monthly report on ‘violations of the occupation and measures of colonial expansion’ that the occupation forces carried out 895 attacks, while the colonists carried out 347 attacks, concentrated in the Nablus Governorate with 202 attacks, the Hebron Governorate with 188 attacks, and the Ramallah Governorate with 186 attacks.
5 martyrs and dozens of homes and vehicles burned as a result of colonialist attacks
The report indicated that the settlers’ attacks were concentrated in Nablus Governorate, with 118 attacks, 83 attacks in Ramallah Governorate, and 34 attacks in Hebron Governorate, which resulted in the martyrdom of five citizens.
He stated that last April witnessed a dangerous escalation in terrorist attacks by colonists under the protection of the Israeli occupation
forces, targeting safe people in 36 Palestinian towns and villages from north to south, resulting in the burning of 36 homes completely and 33 partially, and the burning of more than 57 vehicles partially and completely. In addition to massive destruction of citizens’ property and facilities.
Shaaban explained that the scale of the terrorist attack by the colonists indicates the extent of the powers granted to them by the official Israeli institution, and that the instructions that came out from within the occupation ‘cabinet’ for the colonists to carry out the attacks were issued in parallel with other instructions to the army to provide protection for them during their implementation, in another alignment of the occupying state. Behind the colonial terrorist militias, and a new challenge to all countries, organizations and international bodies, which condemned Israeli colonial terrorism and imposed sanctions on it.
Seizing 172 dunums and approving 7 colonial structural plans
The report indicated that the
occupation authorities seized about 172 dunums of citizens’ lands in the village of Arab Al-Ta’amra, east of Bethlehem Governorate, to expand the boundaries of the ‘Sidi Bar’ colony established on citizens’ lands in the Al-Uqban area in the town of Al-Ta’amra.
In the same context, the Wall and Settlement Resistance Commission explained that the occupation authorities are studying 19 structural plans for the benefit of the West Bank and Jerusalem colonies, and have approved 7 of them, 5 in Jerusalem, in addition to two plans in the West Bank, specifically for the benefit of the ‘Kfar Etzion’ colonies in the Bethlehem Governorate, and “Al-Kanat” in Salfit Governorate.
The occupation authorities also deposited 12 plans, including 5 in Jerusalem and 7 in the West Bank governorates, to build 2,288 new colonial units, targeting 3,036 dunums of citizens’ land.
The authority indicated that the occupation authorities had issued a tender to build 1,047 colonial units in the ‘Lower Canal’ colony between the neighborh
oods of Beit Safafa and Sur Baher inside Jerusalem.
Legitimizing 5 new colonial outposts
The Minister of Finance of the extremist occupation, Bezalel Smotrich, announced the legalization of 5 colonial outposts out of 10 outposts that were announced as the occupation’s intention to legalize and transform them into official colonies that receive financial allocations to develop a basic services network of water, electricity, and roads for their benefit.
Demolishing 33 homes and facilities and threatening to demolish 18 others
The Commission’s report indicated that the occupation authorities carried out 28 demolition operations last April, affecting 33 facilities, including 8 inhabited homes, 3 uninhabited homes, 5 agricultural facilities and others, and were concentrated in the governorates of Jerusalem, Tulkarm, Jericho and Hebron. It also notified the demolition of 18 homes and facilities in the governorates of Ramallah, Al-Bireh, Salfit, and Hebron.
Source: Maan News Agency