Israeli forces have seized at least 27,000 dunams of land (27 square kilometres) since Tel Aviv launched its deadly military campaign in Gaza on October 7, the Colonisation and Wall Resistance Commission (CWRC) said on Saturday.
The confiscated land includes 15,000 dunums seized under the guise of adjusting the boundaries of natural reserves in Jericho and the Jordan Valley, as well as 11,000 dunums through three orders declaring them state lands in Jerusalem and Nablus, according to Moayad Shaaban, the Commission’s president as cited by the New Arab’s Arabic-language website, Al-Araby Al-Jadeed.
“[Israel] makes use of its fierce hostility towards our people in the Gaza Strip by carrying out massive confiscation operations of Palestinian land, affecting 27,000 decares of Palestinian territories,” Shaaban said in a statement marking Palestine’s Land Day.
The commission also said that 230 dunums had been seized through 24 seizure orders for military purposes, preventing Palestinian access to thousands of dunums in the future.
The remainder of the land was seized to make way for buffer zones established around illegal Jewish settlements in the West Bank…..more
