The Wall and Settlement Resistance Authority stated that the Israeli occupation authorities carried out 313 demolitions against Palestinian installations during the first half of this year, 54% of them in the governorates of Jerusalem and Hebron.
In a report issued today, Sunday, on the most prominent Israeli violations in the occupied Palestinian territories during the first half of 2020, the commission stated that 351 notifications of demolition notices were monitored and documented, including (demolition notices, construction cessation, giving An additional opportunity to object to demolition orders), and 60% of these notifications were concentrated in the Hebron and Ramallah governorates.
The Resistance of the Wall and Settlement Authority monitored more than 419 attacks by the settlers during the first half of 2020, witnessing a remarkable increase in the frequency of attacks, which resulted in the injury of 78 citizens, as well as damage to 1,100 dunums of Palestinian citizens ’lands, and the burning and uprooting of more than 3000 trees. And causing material damage to the vehicles of the citizens, as 78 vehicles that were directly affected by the attacks of the settlers were identified, and these attacks were concentrated intensively in the governorates of Jerusalem, Nablus and Hebron, which witnessed more than 60% of the total attacks of the settlers.
The report stated:
"The occupation state, while brutalizing the health threats that afflicted the whole world, and the Palestinians in particular, continued to carry out its attacks on Palestinian citizens by demolishing, seizing and killing, and did not stop at that, but rather formally began to seriously threaten the implementation of the plans that resulted from the disastrous announcement of the American administration in what It has become known as the scheme of annexing the Jordan Valley, and at this moment the issue of encircling the spread of the new Corona virus is no longer the only danger facing the Palestinian territories, but the challenge of facing the plans of the occupation, which is no less than the first challenge, came in the ladder of the priorities of official and popular Palestinian action, as it threatens The existence of an entire people is completely destroyed in the hope of establishing an independent Palestinian state.
The most prominent Israeli violations in the occupied Palestinian territories during the first half of 2020 can be classified as follows:
First: The measures of the occupation authorities to support settlement construction
The colonists, formally or individually, continued the expansion activities in the West Bank settlements without interruption, and the photos taken by the Wall and Settlement Resistance Authority lens confirm that construction and colonial expansion projects spread throughout the Palestinian territories without stopping, and the listed images monitored two construction sites in the settlements of Israel and Oili.
The latest data show that the total of colonial organizational plans that were discussed before the various Israeli organizing institutions in the West Bank amounted to (60) plans distributed among 21 approved plans that included (4179) new colonial housing units, and 39 plans under deposit that included (6,408) colonial units, Some of them came within the vicinity of existing colonies, while others came within new neighborhoods or colonies. Among the most prominent schemes Plan No. 242, to build 3541 new colonial units on an area of ​​1591 dunums in the colony of Kochav Yaqoub located on the lands of Kafr Aqab and Mukhamas, was approved on the plan on 3-3-2020 and published in newspapers on the same date.
Bidding
The Israeli Ministry of Construction and Housing and the Israel Land Authority published 52 tenders (approved before approval) during the first half of 2020, which included building thousands of residential, commercial, industrial, and service units in the settlements in the occupied Palestinian territories. Examples of tenders for land lease include Bid No. 61/2020 for leasing land in the occupied West Bank for a period of 98 years, with an option to extend another 98 years, to build 1077 colonial housing units in the Givat Hamtus colony in Jerusalem, where the bid was closed on 6/22/2020.
Create colonial outposts
The settlers´ escape from attempts to control as much land as possible and the establishment of settlement outposts in strategic locations to complete the establishment of settlement belts that contribute to cutting off geographical communication between the Palestinian governorates. As these outposts were established by the settlers to protect the occupation army, which worked to secure the protection of the settlers while they were building these outposts, the matter is not limited to the location of their construction, but is followed by an attempt to control large areas in the same place, and the type of construction mobile trucks, and then followed Building tents and barracks, and after that, the Regional Council of Settlements will provide the basic services for these water, electricity, and other areas. The first half of 2020 witnessed the establishment of a number of centers, distributed as follows:
The focus of Abu al-Qandoul, located on the lands of Tubas.
The Jebaite outpost located on the lands of Ramallah Governorate.
The focus of the Plain of Turmus´ayya located on the land of Turmus´ayya in Ramallah.
The Givat orphan outpost located on Khlet Al-Nahleh in Bethlehem.
A new outpost was established at the top of Mount Ebal in the northern town of Juqas in the Nablus Governorate.
Second: Israeli government legislation and decisions
The first half of the year 2020 saw the Israeli government and the legislative bodies present a number of bills that aim to promote and consolidate the colonial project in the occupied state of Palestine, despite its inability to pass many laws in the Israeli Knesset as a result of preoccupation with election campaigns. Examples of these projects include: Bill (Jerusalem Law and its daughters, “Greater Jerusalem”) No.: (פ / 82/23): The law proposal was presented by Representative Yoav Kish, on April 20, 2020, where the proposal would expand the borders of the occupation municipality in Jerusalem to include Betar Illit settlements, Ma´aleh Adumim, Givat Zeev, Gush Etzion, Furat, Bill (Ùرض) imposing Israeli sovereignty over the Jordan Valley) No. (פ / 613/23):
The Israeli government (34) and its predecessors took several decisions that directly affected the reality and future of the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967 in the shadow of the Israeli colonial project, which the Netanyahu government is adopting and is devoting to it in the interests of the "State of Israel" and the usurpers of colonists. Examples of these decisions on 5/31/2020 The Israeli government took, under item 31 (c), a decision to establish a new ministry bearing the name of the Ministry of Settlement, and it was assigned to Tesi Khotobli, and this ministry will work to implement settlement policies of the Israeli government in the Palestinian territories, such as bringing in large numbers. From the Jews to the settlements, the intensification of construction in the settlements and the foci, and the construction of more bypass roads.
Third: The actions of the occupation authorities against Palestinian buildings
The total number of demolitions carried out by the occupation authorities against Palestinian installations during the first half of the year 2020, (313) demolitions, 54% of which were concentrated in the governorates of Jerusalem and Hebron, it is indicated that Military Order No. 1797 that came into effect gave authority to "observers" The Civil Administration "by issuing instructions to remove any new building, so that the owner must submit a building permit within 96 hours, and if he does not submit a license request within 96 hours, and the owner has not destroyed his building, the observer can demolish the building and remove it, including the buildings under construction and the buildings that were completed Created, and thus it became almost impossible to challenge demolition orders in the Israeli courts.
Regarding the notifications of demolition, the occupation state, in its pursuit of the policy of "forced displacement" against the Palestinians, attempted to create a coercive environment that pressures Palestinian citizens in all aspects of life. With:
- Distribution of the notice of administrative demolition 1797, according to which if the citizen does not submit his license papers within 96 hours, this will be given according to the occupation decision, the permit to carry out the demolition process towards homes and establishments, and most of the demolitions carried out in the past period were in accordance with this order.
- The occupation authorities distributed a number of notifications of demolition during the "Corona pandemic", knowing that the risk of this is that there are no legal crews operating during this period to defend those installations.
- The total number of demolition notices that were monitored and documented by the Wall and Settlement Resistance Authority in the period covered by the report amounted to 351 notices, which included (demolition notices, construction stoppages, giving an additional opportunity to object to demolition orders), and 60% of these notifications were concentrated in the Hebron and Ramallah governorates God and beer.
Evacuation notices on the pretext of military exercises
During the first half of 2020, the occupation authorities issued a number of eviction notices, according to which citizens must be removed from their lands on the pretext that they were declared closed military areas, military lands or natural reserves, or for the purposes of military training. The total number of notifications reached 129, according to which 737 Palestinian citizens from their places of residence temporarily.
Fourth: The settlers´ attacks on Palestinian citizens
The Resistance of the Wall and Settlement Authority monitored more than 419 attacks by settlers during the first half of the year 2020, witnessing a remarkable increase in the frequency of attacks, which resulted in the injury of 78 Palestinian citizens, damage to 1,100 dunums of Palestinian citizens ’lands, and the burning and uprooting of more than 3000 trees , And material damage to the vehicles of the citizens, as 78 Palestinian vehicles were directly affected by the settlers ’attacks. These attacks were concentrated intensively in the governorates of Jerusalem, Nablus and Hebron, which witnessed more than 60% of the total attacks by the settlers.
Fifth: The procedures for isolating Jerusalem
With the Israeli military occupying Arab lands in June 1967, and the Israeli occupation authority redrawing the borders of the Jerusalem municipality with its two parts: the western (occupied in 1948, and the ethnic cleansing of the Arabs), and the eastern (occupied in 1967), the occupation authorities resorted to a number of measures And practices, starting with tightening the siege on the holy city and isolating it geographically, politically, economically and socially from its Arab Palestinian depth, whether through the outputs of the annexation law, or through the annexation and expansion wall, through the policies of land confiscation and building Jewish settlements, stifling urban development and demolishing or seizing homes and establishments And ending with the legislation and decisions of a racist nature that affected all aspects of the lives of Palestinian Jerusalemites, which made the living reality in the Holy City, and at all levels of social and economic population indicators, a very difficult reality.
Jerusalem isolation scheme:
The annexation of settlement blocs to the municipality of the occupation in Jerusalem.
Opening of the so-called "lifeline" street.
The displacement of 21 Bedouin communities, and the removal of the Kafr Aqab and Shuafat refugee camps from Jerusalem, with a population of 140,000 people.
- Stifling urban expansion eastward, especially after the establishment of the Al-Muntar outpost and the plan to establish a new colonial city.
Sixth: The entirety of the Israeli measures in the Palestinian territories occupied in 1967
52% of the total area of ​​the West Bank is covered by Israeli measures.
80% of lands classified as "C" are covered by Israeli measures.
