RAMALLAH, August 12, 2025 (WAFA) – The Wall and Settlement Resistance Commission has revealed a systematic plan to transform multiple large colonial outposts around the Eli colony, built on land in the villages of al-Sawiya, al-Lubban, and Qaryut, into large neighborhoods affiliated with the colony.
The commission's head, Minister Mu'ayyad Shaaban, affirmed that the occupying state had recently approved several master plans aimed at implementing massive expansions in the Eli colony as part of lager strategy to separate the central West Bank from its northern part through a colonial bloc extending between the Shilo and Eli settlements and the surrounding outposts, in the area between the Ramallah and Nablus governorates.
Shaaban noted that last July, the occupying state submitted a master plan for the settlement, numbered (Yush/7/237), which aims to build 50 new settlement units on an area of 8.6 dunams. The plan will be located on fragmented areas of the land on which the settlement is located.
In the past few days, it approved two major plans, the first of which, numbered (Yush/5/237), covers an area of 638 dunams, with the aim of building 650 new settlement units to regularize a large settlement outpost east of Eli.
He added that in July, Israeli planning bodies reviewed 39 master plans—34 for West Bank settlements and 5 for settlements inside Jerusalem’s municipal boundaries. Of these, 22 were approved and 12 were deposited, amounting to 4,492 approved settlement units and 1,095 pending units over 5,268 dunums of Palestinian land.
In occupied Jerusalem, the municipality approved one plan and deposited four others, totaling 260 pending units on 46 dunums, with no new units approved.
Shaaban emphasized that the occupying state is continuing to impose facts on the ground on Palestinian soil, which will fragment the Palestinian territory and impose a system of isolated enclaves to eliminate the possibility of a future Palestinian state.
He emphasized that the serious violations committed by the occupying state on the ground not only violate the capabilities and inalienable rights of the Palestinian people, but also further violate international community resolutions, UN resolutions, and declared legal positions.
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