Author: Fayha Shalash
Published on: 30/03/2026 | 00:00:00
AI Summary:
Land slated for confiscation last December spans more than 513 dunams (51.3 hectares) 450 of which belong to village of al-Fandaqumiya alone, with the rest belonging to neighbouring towns such as Silat ad-Dhahr and al-Attarra. Palestinians slam Israel’s West Bank land plans list 3 of 4‘De facto annexation’. Palestinian landowners were denied access to their land, which is now entirely under Israeli military control. To prevent the Israeli army from cutting down his olive trees during the bulldozing, Azzam went to his land and cut them down himself. Since October 2023, Israel has been issuing confiscation orders for Palestinian lands in Area C at an accelerated pace in the West Bank. According to data from the Palestinian Authority’s Commission Against the Wall and Settlements, Israel seized 5,572 dunams of Palestinian land in 2025 through 94 confiscation order for military purposes. This move reveals a dangerous escalation in the tools of control, according to the commission’s annual report. Mohammed Fouad, 56, was surprised to find an Israeli army bulldozer razing his land in the town of Ein Yabrud, east of Ramallah. He went to the nearest point to the land and watched as it removed trees, seemingly clearing a road for settlers. A farmer who was nearby informed him of it. Israeli settlers attacked the community intermittently, assaulting men, women, and children, resulting in injuries to an entire family of four. Israeli army joined the attack after the settlers filed a complaint that the Palestinians had resisted them. The soldiers opened fire, wounding the children, aged 12 and 13, further. Actual expulsion The tragedy extends to the expulsion of entire Palestinian communities. At least 4,765 Palestinians were displaced from 97 locations between January 2023 and mid-February 2026 due to settler violence. At the beginning of this year alone, 600 people were forced to leave a single Bedouin village, Ras Ein al-Auja, in the Jordan Valley.
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