The Wall & Colonization Resistance Commission has disclosed that Israeli occupation authorities have issued five new military orders to seize a total of 73 dunams of privately owned Palestinian land in the Ramallah and Al-Bireh governorate, located in the central part of the occupied West Bank.
Issued under the pretext of “security and military needs,” the orders are part of a broader strategy to impose new facts on the ground and entrench illegal annexation.
According to the Commission’s statement:
- Order T/116/24 targets 29.68 dunams from the villages of Kafr Malik and Deir Jarir to establish a buffer zone around the illegal paramilitary Israeli colony of Kokhav HaShahar.
- Order T/118/24 seizes 12.612 dunams from Deir Jarir to construct a military road linking Kokhav HaShahar to Route 449.
- Order T/74/25 appropriates 2.203 dunams from the village of Al-Taybeh, east of Ramallah, to erect a barbed-wire fence along the road leading to the illegal colony of Rimonim.
- Order T/35/06, an amendment to a 2006 directive, targets 18.279 dunams in Ras Karkar to expand a buffer zone around the illegal colony of Talmon. This includes the reclassification of 12.61 dunams of previously declared “state land” to consolidate the colony’s perimeter.
- Order T/43/25 seizes 10.984 dunams from Al-Taybeh to construct another military road connecting Rimonim to Route 449.
The Commission warned that these military orders represent an unprecedented escalation in Israel’s use of “land seizure orders” for purported military purposes.
It emphasized that such measures are systematically employed to facilitate the de facto annexation of Palestinian territory, particularly through the creation of buffer zones around illegal colonies.
On Sunday, the ongoing Israeli paramilitary colonizer attacks on the Palestinian olive harvest (the main source of livelihood for many Palestinians) continued with violent assaults on olive harvesters in the Hebron and Bethlehem area, the destruction of olive trees and the ravaging of Palestinian farmland.
On Saturday, illegal paramilitary Israeli colonizers attacked Palestinian olive harvesters in the town of Aqraba, south of Nablus, in the northern part of the occupied West Bank, injuring three civilians.
On Friday, illegal Israeli colonizers carried out a series of attacks against Palestinians and their property in the governorates of Ramallah and Nablus, in the central and northern parts of the West Bank.
Also Friday, the colonizers assaulted Palestinian farmers and international solidarity activists in the town of Kafr Malik, east of Ramallah in the occupied West Bank’s central part, preventing them from reaching their agricultural land.
Colonization & Wall Resistance Commission said its field teams have documented 158 attacks on olive harvesters since the beginning of the current season. Of these, 17 were carried out by Israeli soldiers, while 141 were perpetrated by illegal colonizers.
Since October 7, 2023, Israel has issued military orders establishing 30 such buffer zones across the occupied West Bank, according to the Commission’s latest update as of October 26, 2025. These zones, which bar Palestinian access to vast tracts of land, are seen as a precursor to permanent Israeli control.
During the same timeframe, the colonialists have carried out a total of 7,154 attacks against citizens and their property, causing the death of 33 citizens in the West Bank.
The attacks by the occupation and its colonists also caused the uprooting, destruction, and damage of a total of 48,728 trees, including 37,237 olive trees, according to the Wall and Settlement Resistance Commission.
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 33 of the Fourth Geneva Convention prohibits collective punishment and acts of terror against civilian populations.
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”.
Articles 53 and 147, prohibit the destruction of civilian property and classify pillage as a war crime.
