The Wall & Colonization Resistance Commission reported that Israeli occupation authorities seized an additional 47 dunams of Palestinian land on Monday from Al‑Fandaqumiya and Silat ath‑Thaher in Jenin, and Burqa in Nablus, in the northern part of the occupied West Bank. The seizure expands a military order issued last month.
The Commission said last month’s military order T/175/25 stripped ownership of 503 dunams from the three communities to construct a so‑called “security road” linking the evacuated colonies of Homesh and Sanur, which were dismantled in 2005.
The newly seized land will add new segments to the planned road, positioned west of Al‑Fandaqumiya and Silat ath‑Thaher and north of Burqa.
The Commission warned that Israeli authorities have intensified land‑seizure operations in the northern West Bank, particularly in Tubas and Jenin, issuing 23 new military land‑grab orders in recent weeks.
These orders aim to establish “military and security infrastructure” that would facilitate the renewed expansion of illegal Israeli colonies in the area, threatening to fragment and reshape the Palestinian geographic landscape.
In its annual report on Israeli violations and colonial expansion, the Commission said the Israeli authorities issued 94 military land‑seizure orders in 2025.
These included 24 orders establishing buffer zones around colonizer sites, 52 orders for constructing “security roads” for colonizers—including one stretching 22 kilometers in the northern Jordan Valley—along with five orders for installing fences and walls, and nine orders for establishing or expanding military sites and related infrastructure.
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.
