The National Bureau for Land Defense and Settlement Resistance confirmed that the Israeli occupation government continues the policy of imposing more new settlement facts on the land, in the remainder of the term of the outgoing US President Donald Trump .
The office stated in its weekly report, issued today, Saturday, that "the end of the year 2020 and the beginning of the new year 2021 witnessed an escalation in settlement activities, plans and tenders and attacks on citizens and their properties . " He pointed out that the occupation authorities and the so-called "planning council" in their civil administration affiliated with the occupation army had approved settlement plans, through which large swathes of citizens´ lands were stolen . He pointed out that the Bethlehem governorate, as previously mentioned, was not spared from all of that, and they were the main targets of these plans in the past week . It was reported that the seizure of lands was announced in the town of Al-Khader in Basin (8) from the Al-Shifa site, Wadi Al-Hindi and Basin No. (1) from the Umm Al-Tala plot in Artas village, and Basin (4) from the site of Wa´r Abu Mehr and Al-Aqban, and Basin (5) from The meadows site in the village of Tamrah, to the east . He pointed out that the Israeli Ministry of Interior published an announcement issued by the so-called "Supreme Planning Council of the Civil Administration" regarding the deposit of a new settlement plan, which stipulates the confiscation of 1008 dunums of lands from Azzun village in the Qalqilya governorate, for the benefit of settlement construction . The new settlement plan, No. / 13/8/115, includes the construction of 1406 new settlement units in the southeast of the "El Fei Menashe" settlement, in Basin No. 2 in the areas known as Wadi Asla, Dhahr al-Manaf, Qatayin al-Sahl and al-Mafraq . In 2017, the occupation authorities began preparing the infrastructure for the target site by leveling lands and constructing internal roads to facilitate the work of contracting companies for the settlement project later . According to the "National Office", last week the occupation forces destroyed large areas of lands planted with olive trees in the town of Deir Ballut, west of Salfit, under the pretext that they are "state lands", and sprayed hundreds of olive, grape and almond seedlings planted on an area of ​​nearly 300 dunums with lethal pesticides and attacked their owners. By multiplying.
