The Israeli regime has ordered the seizure of 300,000 square meters of Palestinian land in the city of Nablus, north of the occupied West Bank for its illegal settlements.
According to Ghassan Daghlas, the Palestinian official in charge of monitoring illegal settlers’ activities in the northern West Bank, on Monday, the land will be used by the Tel Aviv regime for setting up a “settlement project.”
Daghlas further noted that Palestinian land in Jaloud and in surrounding villages has long been subject to confiscation by Israeli regime officials.
On March 28, the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) condemned the Israeli regime for its continued settlement building activities and the violation of Palestinians’ rights.
The UN’s top human rights body censured the Israeli demolition of Palestinian houses and their expulsions and called on Tel Aviv to immediately cease all of its settlement activities.
The presence and continued expansion of Israeli settlements in occupied Palestine has created a major obstacle for the efforts to establish peace in the Middle East.
More than half a million Israelis live in over 120 illegal settlements built since Israel’s occupation of the Palestinian territories of the West Bank and East al-Quds in 1967.
The UN and most countries regard the Israeli settlements as illegal because the territories were captured by Israel in a war in 1967 and are hence subject to the Geneva Conventions, which forbid construction on occupied lands.
IA/AS/MAM
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