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The Israeli Government declared 800 hectares in the Jordanin West Bank occupied, an area traditionally populated by peasants Palestinians is that Israel wants to annex the nearby settler settlement of Yafit.
It is the largest area of Palestinian land designated as a state for the Israeli colonial project in West Bank since the Oslo Accordsdenounced the Israeli NGO Peace nowwhich documents colonization in the Palestinian territories, occupied by Israel since 1967.
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Peace now ensures that, with the new Government of Benjamin Netanyahu Supported by the colonizing extreme right, 2024 already sets a record for the extent of land declared as state.
The Minister of Finance, the far-right colonist Bezalel Smotrich -who heads the department of the Ministry of Defense that authorizes settlements-, announced the declaration of these 800 hectares as State land, which adds to the 264 hectares approved on February 29, among the settlements of Maale Adumim and Keidarnear Jerusalem.
Smotrich that day also announced the approval of 3,500 additional homes in these settlements, in retaliation for last month’s Palestinian attack on the entrance to the Maale Adumimwhich left a colonist dead.
“State land declaration is one of the main methods by which the State of Israel seeks to assert control over land in occupied territories“, he indicated Peace now.
State-declared lands are no longer considered private property of Palestinians in the eyes of Israeland are prevented from using them, since the State only rents them to the Israelis to expand settlements, which is illegal according to international standards in militarily occupied territory, as is the case of West Bank.
In the 1980s, Israel declared thousands of hectares as state land, something Isaac Rabin’s government suspended in 1992 to facilitate peace negotiations concluded in the 1990s. Oslo Accords -which contemplated the creation of a Palestinian state on the borders of 67-; but Netanyahu He resumed this method in 1998 and since then more than 4,000 hectares of Palestinian land have become state property.
“Netanyahu and Smotrich “They are determined to fight against the entire world and against the interests of the people of Israel for the benefit of a handful of settlers who receive hundreds of hectares as if there were no political conflict to resolve or a war to end.”am sorry Peace now.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Palestinian authority -which governs in small areas of the West Bank– condemned the decision announced by the minister Smotrichon the eve of the arrival in Israel today of the US Secretary of State, Anthony Blinkento promote a ceasefire in Link.
“It is part of the Israeli settlement expansion plan, a crime in the truest sense of the word, a word that is part of an official policy against the clock to annex West Bank and discard the opportunity to materialize the Palestinian State“, lamented the ANP.
Source: Elcomercio
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