The regime’s announcement of approving the planning and
building of 3,988 settler units has alarmed human rights organizations and the
international community.
An official with the Tel Aviv regime claims there is a
"growing need" for settlements as the Israeli settlers increase in
occupied Palestine in the latest bid to deprive the Palestinian natives from
their land.
More than half a million Israeli settlers live in the
occupied Palestinian territories, “with many more even wanting to move there”,
the Israeli official added.
The regime’s Planning Council for the occupied West Bank is
set to give its final approval for building 2,536 new settler units and approve
plans for an additional 1,452 settlement units.
The 2,536 settlement units are said to include 761 units for
the Beitar Illit settlement, 534 units for Shvuet Rachel, 364 for Dolev, 168
for Neria, 156 for Kiryat Arba, 136 for Givat Ze'ev, 114 for Ma'aleh Michmash,
106 for Tal Menashe, 92 for Zofim, 64 for Revava and 40 for Efrat.
Meanwhile, the 1,452 settlement units include 500 units for
the Elkana settlement, 286 units for Kedumim, 192 for Sha'are Tikvah, 170 for
Immanuel, and 110 for Mevo Horon, 90 for Dolev, 56 for Negahot, 32 for Nokdim
and 16 for Ma'aleh Adumim.
Regime officials say initial intentions were to advance
plans for close to 6,000 settler units but were told to cut around 1,800 to 2,000.
Qatar has been among the latest country to condemn the
motion calling on the international community to act urgently to prevent the
occupation authorities from approving the plans and forcing them to stop their
settlement policies in the Palestinian territories.
Israel has reportedly told its top ally the United States
that this measure would likely shore up Israeli Prime Minister Naftali
Bennett's fragile coalition ahead of the return of the Knesset from the summer
session.
Israeli settlements and their expansion in the occupied
territories are illegal under international law, yet the regime continues to
violate the UN charter.
This comes on the backdrop of an Israeli decision last week
to uphold an expulsion order that would force at least 1,000 Palestinians out
of their ancestral homes in the occupied southern West Bank where they have
been residing for decades.
According to a publication by Doctors without Borders In the
occupied West Bank “systematic repression and discrimination by Israeli
authorities against Palestinians continue, with home demolitions, forced
relocations, and violence on the rise.”
“For many people, such experiences have long-term
consequences, particularly when they come on top of pre-existing trauma from
previous episodes of violence.” the international medical NGO added.
