Israeli occupation forces illegally confiscated 5 dunums and 163 square meters of land on Saturday from the towns of Sa’ir and Shiokh, in Hebron, located in the southern part of the occupied West Bank, under a military order citing “security and military purposes.”
According to a statement by the Wall & Colonization Resistance Commission, the aim of the order is to construct a segregated colonial road connecting the illegal colonies of Asfar and Bnei Kedem, which are built on Palestinian land belonging to Sa’ir and Al- Shiokh.
The Commission’s analysis reveals that Israeli authorities reclassified previously designated “state land” for military use, allocating 4 dunums and 888 square meters (marked in blue) to the road’s construction and adding 275 square meters (marked in red) for the same purpose.
Since early 2025, Israel has issued 40 military land-confiscation orders, 11 of which have resulted in the establishment of buffer zones around colonies, effectively barring Palestinians from large swaths of farmland under the pretext of “security proximity.”
The Commission notes a sharp increase in these orders as part of Israel’s strategy to impose facts on the ground—military outposts, exclusive roads for Israeli forces and colonizers, and expanded buffer zones, all serving the interests of illegal colonization at the expense of Palestinians’ land rights and daily life.
In related news, Israel is advancing plans to construct 2,339 illegal colonialist units across the northern, central, and southern regions of the occupied West Bank, a statement issued by the Palestine Liberation Organization’s National Office for the Defense of Land and Resistance of Settlement, revealed.
On Friday, Illegal paramilitary Israeli colonizers carried out numerous attacks against Palestinians, their homes, and their lands across several areas of the occupied West Bank.
The colonizers killed two Palestinians, including a Palestinian-American, while many others were wounded, and several properties sustained damage in Sinjil town, northwest of the central West Bank city of Ramallah. Israeli soldiers also abducted a child and a young man in Salfit, in the central West Bank.
Early Friday morning, at least 30 Palestinian families were forcibly displaced from the Arab al-Mleihat Bedouin community, situated at the end of the Mu’arrajat road northwest of Jericho, in the northeastern part of the occupied West Bank.
All of Israel’s colonies in the occupied West Bank, including those in and around occupied East Jerusalem, are illegal under International Law, the Fourth Geneva Convention, in addition to various United Nations and Security Council resolutions. They also constitute war crimes under International Law.
Article 49 of the Fourth Geneva Convention states: “The Occupying Power shall not deport or transfer parts of its own civilian population into the territory it occupies.” It also prohibits the “individual or mass forcible transfers, as well as deportations of protected persons from occupied territory.”
Since the beginning of this year, Israeli soldiers and paramilitary colonizers have killed 177 Palestinians, including 31 children and 8 women.
60 Palestinians were killed in Jenin, 32 in Nablus, 26 in Tubas, 17 in Tulkarem, 12 in Hebron, 11 in Ramallah, 6 in Bethlehem, 4 in Qalqilia, 3 in Salfit, 5 in Jerusalem and 1 in Jericho.
