Israel marks over 600 acres of seized Palestinian land for settlement expansion
Israel plans to seize hundreds of acres of Palestinian land in the occupied West Bank to expand a settlement.
It is viewed as one of the regime’s biggest land-grab schemes.
The regime’s authorities on Thursday appropriated several tracts of land near the settlement. The territory would now be designated as part of the Maale Adumim settlement, east of al-Quds.
The tracts amount to 2,640 dunams, or 652 acres.
The West Bank, including East al-Quds, is among the territories Israel captured in 1967.
Much of the international community deems the settlements illegal.
The Palestinian Authority has called on all countries to put individuals tied to settler organizations or companies investing in settlement construction across the occupied Palestinian territories on their terror lists.
The United Nations has already published a list of companies with business ties to Israeli settlements in the occupied Palestinian territories.
The Palestinians have called for serious international intervention to force the regime to stop the settlement expansion.
The UN is concerned about the surging violence perpetuated by Israeli settlers in the West Bank, terming it “terrorism” against the Palestinians.
Acts of violence by Israeli settlers against the Palestinians and their property are a daily occurrence throughout the West Bank.
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