The National Office for Land Defense and Settlement Confrontation, in its weekly report, in which it monitors all the violations of the occupation against the Palestinian human being, his land and his capabilities, affirmed that the settlement expansion plan and annexation of large areas of Palestinian lands to the Israeli occupation state and the imposition of laws and sovereignty The State of Israel should not be removed from the Israeli government´s agenda.
Regarding the controversy surrounding the Israeli government´s stopping the annexation of large areas of land to the occupying state after the announcement of the Emirati-Israeli-American normalization agreement, the National Office made it clear that the former US envoy to the Middle East, Jason Greenblatt, had stated his belief that the Israeli plan to annex areas in the West Bank Al-Gharbia "is still standing and it has not been jumped over, rather it has been suspended," expressing his hope that the implementation of the plan will be just a matter of time, indicating that he hopes that the question posed is not "will" the annexation plan be implemented? Rather, "when" will it be implemented.
In this context, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu reiterated that Israel did not give up its plan to annex areas in the occupied West Bank, and that he did not choose between the agreement with the UAE and the annexation plan. He stressed that the annexation plan will be implemented with American support.
Netanyahu emphasized that the implementation of the annexation plan is still strongly present on the agenda of his government and the administration of US President Donald Trump, noting that the delay in implementing the plan came in response to an American desire. And that the agreement with the UAE will not affect this context. Meanwhile, Israeli Energy Minister Yuval Steinitz said that the annexation plan would be implemented in full, but gradually.
The exit of normalization to the public
The weekly report indicates that the agreement with the UAE did not lay the foundation stone for normalization as much as it brought it out of the stairs into the open, because normalization took place over the past years and matured in particular in parallel with the rise of the annexation issue to the fore. According to various Israeli circles surrounding Netanyahu and those close to him, if the annexation has been suspended in order to pass the agreement with the Emirates, these circles call for the adoption of a national plan for intensive settlement development for the Jordan Valley - by converting the settlement of "Ma´aleh Ephraim" into a city, and establishing new settlements in the Jordan Valley with government investment. Great, and the development of the branches of agriculture, tourism and high technology in the valley, and the diversion of Highway 90 to Highway - the eastern parallel to Route 6, from the eastern Galilee and the Golan Heights, through the Jordan Valley and the Arabah to the end of Bailat, in anticipation, as these circles say, to future expectations.
A new wave of settlement activity
In the context, and in parallel with the Civil Administration of the Occupation Army in the occupied West Bank, the launch of a new wave of settlement activities and its approval of settlement projects in the E1 area and another to link the so-called "Binyamin" settlement bloc in the Ramallah and Al-Bireh governorate with Jerusalem by constructing a highway. And another project linked to Street No. 60, designated for the use of settlers from the settlements of “Adam”, “Psagot”, “Beit El” and “Ofra” to reach Jerusalem directly and on the construction of another road between the settlement bloc “Binyamin” and occupied Jerusalem, extending from the settlement “ Adam “until the Hizma checkpoint northeast of Jerusalem, and the bypass road and Walaja, paving the way for the establishment of a settlement industrial zone on lands in Shufa, Jabara and al-Ras, south of Tulkarm, first paving roads in Shufa lands, where a road was completely built around the“ Al-Wastani ”mountain, then bulldozers started Towards the village of Jabara, and the third phase was in Ezbet Shoufah, in what appears to be the identification of the industrial area features.
It is noteworthy that the occupation authorities had announced the establishment of an Israeli industrial zone in November 2019 on an area of ​​about 800 dunums on the lands of Shofa, Jabara, and Ras Tulkarm. Citizens in the governorate are afraid of a new wave of settlement activities, and dozens of them performed Friday prayers on their lands that were seized by the occupation as part of the seizure decisions in the Jabal area "Lusani", which connects the villages of Jabara, Al-Ras and Shoufah, south and east of Tulkarm.
The National Office states in its report that human rights organizations inside the Green Line have responded to the construction plan in Area E1 by calling on the Palestinian and Israeli public to expedite the submission of objections to the Supreme Planning Council in the military government in the settlement of Beit El (the Israeli Civil Administration) on the project before The expiry of the objection period on the twentieth of the current month. Peace Now, Ir Amim and the Justice Society have come forward.
The suffering of the people of Jerusalem continues
According to the report, the suffering of citizens in Jerusalem and its surroundings and towns continues, from the practices of the settlers and the occupation army and municipality, with the aim of pressuring them and pushing them to migrate outside the region. Settlers from the "paying the price" gangs burned 13 vehicles and wrote racist and incitement slogans in the municipality of Beit Safafa, while bulldozers of the occupation army demolished a six-storey residential building under construction belonging to the family of the citizen Aziz Jamil Jaabis in the Al-Salaa neighborhood in Jabal Al Mukaber, south of occupied Jerusalem. The occupation municipality had forced the Jerusalemite citizen Ahmed Youssef Shqairat to demolish three commercial stores in the Al-Salaa neighborhood in Jabal Al-Mukaber, under the pretext of building without a permit. After the court rejected the request to appeal or suspend the demolition decision; On August 13, a decree was issued to self-demolish the shops. Otherwise, the shopkeeper is obliged to pay 100,000 shekels in Israeli currency for the costs of the occupation´s municipality´s machinery for demolishing.
It is noteworthy that the Israeli occupation municipality in occupied Jerusalem has recently escalated the demolitions in Jerusalem, forcing dozens of Jerusalemites to self-demolish their homes, under the pretext of building without a permit, while imposing impracticable conditions and huge sums in obtaining licensing procedures, which extend for many years .
According to the Wadi Hilweh Information Center, last July, the occupation forces demolished 20 facilities in Jerusalem, including 4 structures that were demolished by their owners, while during the first half of this year they demolished 61 facilities, of which 38 were self-demolished.
In Jerusalem, the so-called Al-Buraq Wall Administration decided to reopen the tunnel sites located under the Al-Buraq Wall (the western wall of Al-Aqsa Mosque) for the settlers´ incursions for the first time in five months of their closure after the spread of the Coronavirus. The Wall Administration of the occupation municipality in Jerusalem was also quoted as saying that during the closure period it granted its electronic services to about 20 thousand people from around the world, and they made virtual tours through a website inside the Al-Aqsa Mosque tunnels, to see the new excavations under the Old City and Al-Aqsa Mosque.
At the same time, settlement activities and attacks on citizens and their property continued in various governorates. In Salfit governorate, the occupation bulldozers bulldozed lands of the citizens in the town of Broqin, the Salfit district, to establish infrastructure for the facilities of the "Burukhim" settlement, which was built on the village lands. More than 150 dunums of agricultural land were bulldozed, and this expansion will result in great damage to farmers in terms of losing their source of livelihood. And the addition of large numbers of settlers to their land.
In the Bethlehem governorate, settlers, under the guard of the occupation forces, stormed the village of Al-Walaja, west of Bethlehem, and stationed in the Jabal Ruwaisat and Ain Al-Hadfa areas, and toured them, knowing that the two areas are threatened with confiscation. Five years ago, the occupation authorities announced a decision to "military expropriation" of Ain Aim.
The valleys
In the northern valleys, the Israeli occupation forces raided the village of Atouf, and delivered notices to remove facilities in the valley of Al-Baqi’a, under the pretext of not being licensed, knowing that it was built on land with private ownership of it. The occupation forces searched the homes of citizens in the Ain al-Hilweh area in the northern Jordan Valley, and after inspecting their homes, they threatened not to go to the lands near the new settlement outpost in the Abu al-Qandoul area, under the pretext of seizing them for the benefit of the settlers.
Protest activities
It had organized more than one protest event during the past week, while Jerusalemites performed Friday prayers in a sit-in tent in the town of Silwan, south of the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque, in opposition to the repeated home demolition policy by the Israeli occupation authorities. After the Friday prayers, which were attended by dozens, the Israeli police deployed near the sit-in tent, and the participants raised signs denouncing what is happening against the people of the town and Jerusalem from demolition operations that affect a large number of facilities, homes and properties of Palestinian citizens in Jerusalem, calling for an immediate and urgent end to the policy of demolition and displacement.
Citizens in a number of governorates were on a date with a series of anti-settlement activities that the occupation forces faced with repression. Confrontations broke out in the village of Kafr Qaddum, east of Qalqilya, with the occupation soldiers, causing suffocation and rubber-coated bullets injuries after the weekly march towards the closed entrance since 2003, and the occupation forces attacked The participants in an anti-settlement event in Masafer Yatta, south of Hebron, must prevent them from holding prayers on their lands that are threatened with appropriation.
I also attacked the participants and the journalists who were present to cover the event and prevent them from holding Friday prayers on the lands threatened with seizure. The Israeli occupation army also attacked the citizens participating in the march and the sit-in at the entrance to the town of Haris, west of Salfit, after the occupation soldiers prevented them from reaching their lands that were threatened with confiscation.
Settlers uprooted dozens of olive saplings that were planted in the Khillet al-Daliya area from the northern Asira lands, on top of Mount Ebal, which was targeted by settlers, and a settlement outpost was removed from its lands. A group of settlers tried, with the protection of the occupation army, to set up a number of tents in the area, but the people responded to them.
Regarding the weekly violations documented by the National Office for the Defense of Land, they were as follows during the reporting period:
Jerusalem: The Israeli occupation authorities demolished a wall under construction in the town of Hizma, northeast of occupied Jerusalem, and issued a notice to demolish other facilities in the town of Al-Jadira. The victim, Bashar Abu Khalil, stated that a bulldozer belonging to the occupation municipality in Jerusalem demolished a wall surrounding two dunums of his family´s land in Hizma town, and a building since 2017. Under the pretext of not being licensed. The occupation authorities notified the demolition of a pool of water for the family of the citizen Suleiman Azzam, a sheep pens for the Qassem family, and a wall surrounding the lands of citizens in the Wadi Hassan area of ​​Al-Jadira town northwest of Jerusalem, under the pretext of not being licensed.
Ramallah: The Israeli occupation forces issued 13 notices to stop construction in the Bedouin al-Kaabneh community, east of Ramallah, in the Ras al-Tin area, east of the village of Kafr Malik, east of Ramallah, while a number of civilians suffocated as a result of inhaling tear gas, fired by the occupation army during its suppression of the village march Ni´lin weekly, west of Ramallah.
Hebron: Settlers of “Ma´on”, which is located on citizens´ lands east of Yatta, south of Hebron, attacked the property of Salman Abu Hamid in Ezbet Wadi Al-Sawy, east of Yatta, and demolished a sheep tent and stole another housing unit, and damaged a water tank while he was away from the area to graze the sheep.
Nablus: The young Oqab Darawsheh, from the village of Talouza in the Nablus governorate, was martyred as a result of being run over by an Israeli settler near the Jabara checkpoint south of Tulkarm, and settlers stormed archaeological sites in the town of Sebastia, north of Nablus. The occupation army, which led to the outbreak of confrontations during which a number of citizens were suffocated with tear gas, and later the Israeli occupation forces were notified to remove the Palestine flag pole located in Al-Baidar Square, about 16 meters long, in the town of Sebastia, north of Nablus, and settlers attacked the eastern neighborhood of the town Asira al-Qibliya, amid the protection of the occupation army, which led to the outbreak of confrontations, during which a number of citizens suffocated due to tear gas canisters.
Tulkarm: The Israeli occupation forces bulldozed agricultural lands, most of them planted with olive and almond trees, and paved a road in the “Al-Wastani” mountain area, in the village of Shufa, located southeast of Tulkarm, noting that the ownership of the mountain belongs to the families of the village of Shufa and is registered with their names on official identification papers, and the area is within The plans approved by the occupation authorities at the end of last year to seize it, which will lead to the confiscation of hundreds of dunams of agricultural land between the villages of Jabara and Shoufah.
The Jordan Valley: The Israeli occupation forces demolished an agricultural barracks 96 hours after issuing a demolition notice to its owner in Atouf village in the Jordan Valley. Abdullah Bisharat, head of Atouf and Ras al-Ahmar village council, said that the occupation forces stormed the area accompanied by a bulldozer of the occupation forces and proceeded to demolish the 150-meter-long bark of Khalil Bani Odeh, after issuing a notification that the construction is illegal knowing that it is located within the structural plan of Atouf village. The Israeli occupation forces justified the demolition of the Brix by saying that it is located within the natural reserves areas that have been classified by the so-called Israeli Civil Administration in the Jordan Valley.
