Khaberni - The National Bureau for the Defense of the Land and Settlement Resistance stated today, Saturday, that the Israeli occupation government utilizes the violence and terrorism of the colonizers to further displacement and ethnic cleansing plans.
The office added in its weekly report, which monitors the period from November 8 to November 13, that the violence of the settlers in the West Bank knows no bounds; it has gotten out of control and has become a disgrace even for Israeli opposition leaders, ranging from Yair Lapid, passing Avigdor Lieberman, ending with Yoav Galant.
The report continued: According to the data from the Israeli army and the so-called General Security Service (Shabak), which anyway do not reflect the truth, since the beginning of the war on the Gaza Strip, there have been 1575 incidents of "national crime" in the West Bank, about 704 of them in the first ten months of this year, involving the use of firearms, bladed weapons, and incendiaries, and 368 of these were classified as "popular terrorism" meaning deliberate, injuring 174 Palestinians since the beginning of the year with an increase of 12 percent compared to last year.
According to the report, Eyal Zamir, the Chief of Staff of the occupation army, went far in misleading when he said that these settlers "crossed red lines" and that his army "will not tolerate a criminal minority that distorts the image of Israelis," while he is aware that this terror, which has gotten out of control, is protected in the field by his army and endorsed by the Netanyahu-Smotrich-Ben Gvir alliance, and covered up by the U.S. administration, and this terrorism has a clear function in facilitating the execution of plans to deport and displace Palestinians from their lands and dwellings.
According to the report, dozens of residential gatherings, particularly in areas classified as (Area C), have become targets for displacement threats, sometimes by the occupation army and other times by settlers, explaining that Palestinians in these gatherings rely on agriculture and sheep herding, and their lives have turned into hell after the occupation authorities began systematically enforcing policies aimed at displacing these gatherings through creating unbearable living conditions, including imposing strict bans on building in these gatherings and refusing to connect them with basic utilities like electricity and water and refraining from paving roads that facilitate access to them.
The report revealed that the pace of displacement has risen in the past two years. Since October 2023, dozens of Palestinian gatherings have been forcibly displaced, exceeding the number of displaced people to more than two thousand due to violence. Thousands more, living in dozens of Palestinian residential gatherings, face a real displacement danger due to daily attacks by settlers, especially from colonial outpost and pastoral farms that spread during the war on the Gaza Strip.
According to the Israeli Information Center for Human Rights "B'Tselem," the outposts and farms, established since October 2023 with the support of the occupation state and exceeding dozens in number, have no purpose other than to displace residential gatherings and seize the largest possible area of land. The violence of settlers residing in these colonial outposts has escalated and become a daily terrifying routine for the residents of the gatherings, involving serious physical assaults, settler invasions into the gatherings and homes of residents during the day and night, setting fires, driving out Palestinian shepherds and farmers from grazing areas and fields, killing and stealing livestock, damaging crops, stealing equipment and personal property, and blocking roads.
Indeed, as "B'Tselem" reports, 2700 Palestinian citizens were displaced during the war. In Hebron governorate, displacement operations affected about eight locations involving 64 families (comprising 489 individuals, including 211 minors), in Bethlehem governorate displacement affected six locations involving 46 families (comprising 211 individuals, including 99 minors), and in Ramallah and Al-Bireh governorate fourteen locations affected 177 families (comprising 1150 individuals, including 508 minors). In Jerusalem governorate, two families in the Hazma wilderness (comprising 18 individuals, including 4 minors) were displaced while relocated operations in Nablus governorate affected four locations involving 17 families (comprising 126 individuals, including 57 minors), Tubas and Northern Valleys highly affected four locations involving 75 families (comprising 435 individuals, including 207 minors), and in Jericho and Jordan Valley operations affected two locations involving 43 families (comprising 262 individuals, including 126 minors). Displacing operations also occurred in Khirbet Abu Al-Rish in Salfit governorate involving 9 families (comprising 47 individuals, including 23 minors).
The center also reports that all this occurred under the Netanyahu-Smotrich-Ben Gvir government, which focused mainly on a number of areas in the West Bank, notably next to Ramallah and Al-Bireh governorate, the southern Hebron hills area where about a thousand Palestinian citizens live, half of whom are children under displacement threat from their homes and villages, in and around Jerusalem City and East Jerusalem area where about 3,000 Palestinians from the area are threatened with displacement, including 1,400 Palestinians living in the (E1) area, which Israel has turned into an area of influence for the "Ma'ale Adumim" settlement to establish urban continuity between the colony and Jerusalem city and the Jordan Valley area where thousands of Palestinian citizens live in about twenty pastoral gatherings on their lands or on the outskirts of lands declared by the occupation army as "firing zones."
The report emphasized by the National Bureau for the Defense of the Land and Settlement Resistance, stating that in recent weeks there was a focus on Palestinian pastoral gatherings placed by the occupation army and settlers on the agenda of demolition and displacement operations, particularly those gatherings surrounding Jerusalem, especially the gathering "Ma'azi Jabaa" northeast of Jerusalem, and Khirbet Um Al-Khair gathering in Masafer Yatta south of Hebron.
Both gatherings in recent days have become direct targets for harassment and provocations by the occupation army and criminal actions of colonial groups (Youth of the Hills, Barbarians of the Hills, and Price Tag), which prompted the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs in the Occupied Palestinian Territory in its latest reports on humanitarian situation updates in the West Bank on the seventh of this month to warn of the serious repercussions resulting from the policies of the occupation authorities and practices of settlers.
The report also mentioned that the Netanyahu-Smotrich and Ben Gvir government does not give weight to such warnings as long as they remain within verbal positions and do not move to deterrent actions by governments, especially in countries of the European Union, the most important economic and trading partner with the state of occupation, and as long as the current U.S. administration continues its favoring policy towards the occupation army and practices of settlers, and decides to lift sanctions on those settlers who were classified by the previous U.S. administration as "terrorists" and imposed sanctions on them and on the entities that provide them with support and sponsorship.
The report added that the Bedouin gatherings around Jerusalem City find themselves facing imminent forced displacement, especially with the commencement of the colonial project (E1), and this is evident from what happens on the ground from measures and practices, where teams from the so-called "Civil Administration" accompanied by the occupation army in late August last year distributed about 42 demolition notifications for facilities in the areas of the nursery, Wadi Camel, and Wadi Al-Hod in the town of Al-Eizariya east of Jerusalem, which notifications are related to the establishment of the colonial street called by Israel "Life Fabric" and called by Palestinians "Sovereignty Street" in reference to its political goal which is imposing "sovereignty" on the West Bank. A real threat looms over the existence of 22 Palestinian Bedouin gatherings, which are expected to be displaced by continuing the colonial construction in the (E1) area.
The report continued with the demolition notifications proceeding alongside terrorist practices by settlers, as the series of these practices against Bedouin gatherings in the area aiming at their displacement, especially against Palestinian citizens in "Ma'azi Jabaa," continues. However, the goal is clear: to control hundreds of dunams of land to expand the "Adumim" colony that the occupation established on the lands of Jabaa, and connect it with the "Benjamin" settlement, to create geographical continuity between the two settlements.
The gathering "Ma'azi Jabaa" includes about 200 Palestinian citizens, including about 40 families and 70 children under eighteen, living in tough conditions lacking the bare essentials of life.
It is worth noting that more than a year ago, the occupation authorities published a detailed regulatory plan to expand the "Jabaa Benjamin" settlement by building a new colonial neighborhood on the lands of the town of Jabaa on an area of 150 dunams on the northern edge of the settlement on a hill and pasture lands, aiming to fatten the said settlement against the "Shaar Benjamin" settlement. However, the gathering "Ma'azi Jabaa" has now become the separator between these two settlements, which explains this focus on "Ma'azi Jabaa" for its displacement.
The report also noted that the village of Um Al-Khair has also become a direct target for displacement policies. At the end of October last year, the occupation authorities delivered final demolition notifications affecting several residential homes and service facilities in the village during an incursion carried out with what is called "Civil Administration," amid fears of implementing a mass demolition campaign in the coming days.
The notifications included 14 homes and facilities, including Um Al-Khair Community Center. Um Al-Khair village is one of the most targeted residential gatherings for demolition in Masafer Yatta, having witnessed since 2007 more than 20 demolition operations that affected more than 100 residential, agricultural, and service facilities, the last of which was in February last year. The village experiences difficult humanitarian conditions, amidst the escalation of the colonial onslaught, after the settlers recently established a colonial outpost within its lands along with the operations of land grab. Um Al-Khair remains under all circumstances a symbol of the resilience of Masafer Yatta, a resilience drawn by the martyrdom of citizens: Suleiman Al-Hathalin and Odeh Al-Hathalin by the hands of terrorist settlers.
The report clarified that this village located east of Yatta south of Hebron spans a thousand dunams, bought by citizens who were displaced by the occupation state from the "Tel Arad" area in Beersheba in 1948, and since that time, they have been living there and engaging in their agricultural and pastoral activity in the surrounding lands of the village which amount to 6000 dunams between farmlands and mountains. Scarcely about 300 people from the Hadalin Bedouin tribe remain in the village, surrounded by colonization and deprived of all essentials of life, threatened with eviction and displacement at any time, which prompted the UN Office for Human Rights in the Occupied Palestinian Territory last week to warn against the demolition orders issued by the occupation authorities on the 28th of last month in the village, which portends a new wave of forced displacement. In that warning, the UN office called on the occupation authorities to immediately halt the mass demolition orders targeting 11 homes and vital community infrastructure, affecting about 35 extended families living there since their displacement from their lands in the Negev during the mass forced displacement of Palestinians in 1948.
On another note and in a development heralding worse security conditions in the West Bank and reaching record levels of settler terrorism, the so-called Council of West Bank Settlements distributed about 60 thermal drones to settlements and pastoral farms in the West Bank with support from the colonization department in the Civil Administration, managed by the extremist minister Bezalel Smotrich, and funded by millions of shekels collected by council chairman Yossi Dagan in a fundraising campaign in the United States. At the drone distribution ceremony, Dagan said: "We are here to win."
The report highlighted that Dagan holds an influential position in the Likud party and is known for his extremism and support for the Hilltop Youth and other terrorist organizations of settlers operating in the settlements, and he had joined Smotrich in calling for the erasure of Hawara town from existence, in March 2023.
The Israeli violations documented by the National Bureau for the Defense of the Land and Settlement Resistance during the report preparation period:
Jerusalem: Settlers assaulted a number of workers and olive pickers in the "Kerem Al-Haraeq" area in the town of Beit Duqqu on Sunday, before smashing agricultural machines (tractors) and seizing laptops that were in the workers' possession.
Also, that day, 7 citizens from the "Ma'azi" Bedouin gathering east of Jabaa town were injured, and their property was burned due to an attack by settlers from the "Adam" settlement.
The Israeli occupation forces forced three families in Silwan town to evacuate their homes forcibly; in preparation for seizing them.
Settlers established a new colonial outpost near the Abu Ghalyah and Al-Ara'rah Bedouin gatherings east of Anata town on Sunday, including foundation laying for mobile homes and moving equipment and tools. On Tuesday, a group of settlers stormed the "Khalat Al-Sidrah" gathering near Mikhmas village, trying to attack the citizens, before being repelled by young men from the gathering. Settlers also set fire to two vehicles belonging to citizens from the village.
On Thursday, the occupation bulldozers demolished a park in the Jabal Al-Sheikh area of Al-Qubeiba town. In Qalandiya village, the occupation authorities notified owners of homes and agricultural lands of demolition and evacuation in preparation for establishing a waste incineration plant, threatening to demolish two buildings housing dozens of Palestinian families, in addition to seizing about 150 dunams of agricultural lands for the sake of altering the route of the separation and expansionist wall.
Hebron: A citizen was injured on Sunday due to an assault by armed settlers from the "Carmel" settlement and the "Shimon" outpost; he was transported to Yatta Government Hospital, and his injuries were described as moderate. Settlers also uprooted 70 olive saplings belonging to citizen Nasser Abu Ubaid in Khirbet Al-Taban in Masafer Yatta and cut the fence surrounding his land.
Armed settlers from the "Avigal" settlement stormed Beit Ummar town and a dwelling in Masafer Yatta, conducting provocative acts against the locals.
In Beit Ummar town, the occupation forces issued a military order for seizing and taking over more than 38 dunams of town land in "Dahr Iftima, Al-Yanbou', Khallat Al-Aarn, Wadi Ashkheet, Khallat Al-Furn, and Seder Safa," lands planted with vineyards, almond trees, and fruitful olive trees.
Bethlehem: On Sunday, settlers attacked citizens' vehicles in Al-Maniya village, while others grazed their sheep in Beit Fajjar town, and attacked olive pickers in Nahalin west. Settlers also attacked citizen Jihad Ibrahim Najajra and his son Ibrahim while they were working in olive harvesting before arresting them, and seizing the harvested olive crop, in addition to the equipment used in the harvesting process.
On Wednesday, a young man (25 years old) was injured by bullets from the occupation forces during an attack by a group of settlers protected by the occupation forces on Kisan village while they were plowing their land in the "Wadi Abu Ayash" area.
On Thursday, settlers stormed the "Khalail Al-Loz" area and caused destruction and damage in a plastic house and a water well and took about 20 reinforced iron "asphalt" pillars belonging to one of the citizens. Meanwhile, the Israeli occupation forces demolished two homes in Al-Walaja village and notified the demolition of three homes under construction in the "Khalat Al-Hoor" and "Al-Sarj" areas.
Ramallah: Settlers set fire to 3 vehicles in the "Al-Tal" area in Deir Debwan town before fleeing. Other settlers also set two vehicles on fire during an attack on Atara town under the protection of the occupation forces deployed around the town.
In Kfar Malik town, settlers attacked farmers and foreign solidarity activists while heading to their land in the southern areas near the "bypass road" and the "Al-Manateer" area east, forcing them to return, while three citizens were injured and bruised from different injuries due to attacks by settlers in Deir Nidham village, forcing them to leave their lands. Settlers also attacked Al-Mughayer village and set citizens' vehicles on fire, while other settlers stole olive fruits from lands in the Khalail area south of the village owned by a citizen from the neighboring town of Turmus Ayya.
On Wednesday, armed settlers from the "Khirbet Al-Tal" area in Sinjil town opened fire towards a number of young men in the area, injuring a young man with a bullet in the foot.
Nablus: On Sunday, settlers from the new colonial outpost established on the lands of Majdal Bani Fadil village set fire to dozens of olive trees spread over extensive areas of the village's southern lands. Also, on Monday, a group of settlers attacked shepherd citizens in Khirbet Al-Tawil east of Aqraba town, attempting to force them to leave the area. It should be noted that settlers continuously chase livestock herders in their limited pastures, preventing them from grazing their livestock, until tens of thousands of pastoral lands in various areas in the West Bank came under their control.
Tulkarm: Groups of settlers conducted a widespread attack on industrial and agricultural facilities near Beit Lid town on Tuesday evening, leading to large fires and injuring a number of citizens. Settlers set fire to several Palestinian vehicles inside the industrial area known as "Al-Ladain" around the town, including 4 trucks belonging to the "Al-Junaidi" dairy factory. The attack extended to include setting fires in agricultural areas, tin rooms, and tents belonging to a Bedouin gathering housing about five families living in the area.
Jericho and the Jordan Valley: On Sunday, a group of settlers demolished a residential tent and destroyed agricultural crops in Khirbet Al-Farsiya in the northern Jordan Valley, in addition to damaging agricultural crops. They also stole agricultural equipment and began plowing the land to take control of it. Also, on Monday evening, a number of settlers riding horses stormed the Makhol and Samra gatherings in the northern Jordan Valley, in a provocative step to intimidate the citizens.
A citizen from the Arab Al-Rashaideh Bedouin gathering north of Jericho was seriously injured on Wednesday,
