Israeli occupation forces confiscated 133 dunams of privately owned Palestinian land on Friday in the governorates of Jenin and Salfit, in the northern and central parts of the occupied West Bank, citing what they call “military purposes,” in a continued escalation of land appropriation and landscape alteration.
The Wall & Colonization Resistance Commission stated that the occupation issued three new military orders, including two in Jenin targeting lands belonging to the town of ‘Arraba.
The first order seizes 128.6 dunams to expand a military site east of the town, while a second order seizes 3.6 dunams for the construction of a road in the same area.
In Salfit, the occupation issued another order confiscating 999 square meters of land from the town of Deir Istiya to open what it described as a “security road” south of the town of Marda, adjacent to the Ariel colony, which is built on Palestinian land in the governorate.
The Commission added that the occupation issued two more military orders mandating the removal of the tree layer from 47 dunams of Palestinian land in Jenin and Salfit.
In Jenin, the first order targets 21.43 dunams east of ‘Arraba, in the vicinity of the military site, while the second targets 25.74 dunams of land in Deir Istiya, north of the town, along Wadi Qana Road east of Qalqilia.
Data released Friday by the Commission shows that during two weeks of war, the occupation issued 12 military orders for land seizure under the pretext of “military and security needs,” appropriating 250 dunams in the governorates of Ramallah, Jenin, Jerusalem, Jericho, Tubas, and Nablus.
These orders were used to open military roads, establish military sites, and create “buffer zones.” The largest of these was military order T/3/26, which seized 128 dunams from ‘Arraba for the establishment of a military site.
The same data indicates that the occupation also issued 11 military orders under the label “security measures,” mandating the removal of trees from 817 dunams of Palestinian land in the governorates of Ramallah (7 orders), and one order each in Nablus, Tulkarem, Jenin, and Bethlehem.
The largest of these was military order #26, targeting 380 dunams of land belonging to the villages of Silwad, ‘Atara, and Ein Siniya north of Ramallah. Additional orders target lands in Ramin in Tulkarem and in Huwwara in Nablus.
In related news, illegal paramilitary Israeli colonizers began preparing a new segregated road extending from the area of the depopulated Abu Najeh Bedouin community in the Al‑Khalayel area, south of the village of Al‑Mughayyir, toward the areas of Ezbet Lafi and Shibly Si’ Meadow, in a move aimed at advancing colonial projects on stolen Palestinian lands belonging to Abu Al‑Falah and Al‑Mughayyir.
