JENIN, August 20, 2026 (WAFA) — An anti-settler-colonialism activist described on Thursday the return of Israeli colonists to Kadim as a political step intended to reshape the reality of the occupied West Bank governorate of Jenin.

Tareq Aghbariyeh said that the return of 30 colonist families, accompanied by Jewish supremacist Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich, to the Kadim colony, reestablished on Palestinian-owned land 21 years after it was evacuated under Israel’s 2005 Disengagement Plan, constitutes a political and field step aimed at reshaping the reality of the governorate and reinforcing colonists’ presence in the northern West Bank.

Aghbariyeh said this step carries several implications, most notably reversing the Disengagement Plan implemented in 2005, as well as Israel’s drive to expand settler-colonialism activity.

He noted that the most serious aspect of this step lies in the geographic, demographic, economic, agricultural, and security-wise effects on the governorate, explaining that the Israeli occupation authorities were seeking to impose new realities on the ground to coerce Palestinians into leaving their lands and undermine the prospects of establishing a geographically contiguous Palestinian state.

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