NABLUS,
Wednesday, September 22, 2021 (WAFA) – The Israeli occupation authorities today
leveled a large tract of Palestinian land to the south of the West Bank city of
Nablus, according to a local official.
Ghassan
Daghlas, who monitors Israeli colonial settlement
activities in the northern West Bank, said that Israeli bulldozers razed 30 donums of land belonging to the villagers of Qusra, Jurish and Aqraba.
He
expressed his concerns that this step was intended as a prelude to the
construction of a new colonial settlement outpost in the area.
Over
700,000 Israelis live in Jewish-only colonial settlements across occupied East
Jerusalem and the West Bank in violation of international law.
The
number of settlers has almost tripled since the Oslo Accords of 1993, when
settlers’ number estimated 252,000. Illegal colonial settlements have leapt
from 144 to over 515 in that time.
Israel’s
nation-state law that passed last July stated that building and strengthening
settlements as a “national interest.”
K.F.
