RAMALLAH, December 12, 2025 (WAFA) – Head of the Wall and Colonization Resistance Commission, Minister Mu’ayyad Sha’ban, said that the approval by the so-called Israeli occupation cabinet to legalize and establish 19 new colonies across the occupied West Bank marks yet another step in the race to erase Palestinian geography in favor of the colonial settlement project

Sha’ban considered the decision a dangerous escalation that exposes the true intentions of the occupation government to entrench a system of annexation, apartheid, and the complete Judaization of Palestinian land.

He said that this step comes within a systematic policy led by the colonists’ government, headed by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich, aimed at legalizing colonial outposts and transforming them into official colonies, thereby entrenching permanent Israeli control over Palestinian land.

Sha’ban slammed the decision as a blatant challenge to international law and UN Security Council resolutions, particularly Resolution 2334. He warned that it raises serious alarm over the future of the West Bank, which he said is facing a systematic colonization process aimed at uprooting the Palestinian presence and turning cities and villages into isolated, besieged enclaves.

He affirmed that the Commission, in cooperation with all official and popular bodies, will continue legal, diplomatic, and field efforts to expose Israeli colonial crimes before the international community, calling for urgent action by the United Nations and the High Contracting Parties to the Geneva Conventions to halt this dangerous expansion.

T.R.