On Friday, a group of illegal Israeli paramilitary colonizers continued the construction of a new colonialist outpost on stolen Palestinian lands in the Al-Mughayyir village, east of Ramallah in the occupied West Bank’s central part.
Marzouq Abu Na’im, deputy-director of the Al-Mughayyir village Council, stated that the colonizers are installing their illegal outpost on private Palestinian lands, only 500 meters away from the village.
Abu Na’im added that the colonizers were seen installing a tent and preparing the area around it in a move to expand it on the stolen Palestinian lands.
In related news, Israeli soldiers refused to allow Palestinian worshipers to leave local mosques in Al-Mughayyir, before later firing gas bombs and concussion grenades at them.
Abu Na’im stated that the attack came as dozens of paramilitary colonizers gathered on the main colonialist street near the village as part of a larger procession for colonizers in Ramallah, all the way to Douma and Al-Majdal until Aqraba Junction, south of Nablus in the northern West Bank.
In related news, paramilitary colonizers started fencing around additional Palestinian lands in Ein al-Hilweh area, in the northern Jordan Valley.
Media sources reported that settlers enclosed areas close to their encampments, further restricting access to grazing lands for Palestinian communities.
For months, the colonizers have been systematically fencing off pasturelands in Ein al-Hilweh, reinforcing land seizure policies that continue to unfold across the northern Jordan Valley.
Israeli authorities have announced lately the approval of a significant expansion of colonies in the occupied West Bank, marking the largest expansion of its kind in decades. This includes 2 new colonies, and the reconstruction of Homesh and Sanur, two colonies previously dismantled under Israel’s 2005 disengagement plan.
Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz emphasized that the move is aimed at what he called “solidifying Israeli control over the territory,” describing it as a decisive measure against Palestinian resistance.
Katz also asserted that “preventing the establishment of a Palestinian state is a critical security priority for Israel.”
Meanwhile, Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich framed the decision as a “historic shift,” positioning it as a cornerstone in the broader effort to “strengthen Israeli dominance in the West Bank.”
Smotrich, a vocal supporter of formal annexation, has previously stated that Israel’s ongoing military operations have left Gaza in total devastation, while at the same time advancing settlement expansion.
The plan includes both the “legalization” of previously unauthorized outposts and the establishment of new colonies.
Israeli soldiers and paramilitary colonizers have escalated their invasions and violations across the occupied West Bank, with dozens of colonizers also attacking Palestinian homes, uprooting lands, burning cars and torching farmlands, while Israeli occupation soldiers uprooted trees.
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”.
