A gaggle of unlawful Israeli settlers arrange a brand new settlement outpost north of town of Jericho within the occupied West Bank on Thursday, the Palestinian news company WAFA reported.
“Around 15 illegal settlers brought building equipment and set up a new settlement outpost about 300 meters from al-Auja water canal,” mentioned Ayman Ghareeb, an activist with the Popular Resistance Committees within the Jordan Valley.
He emphasised that the canal is a major supply of water within the northern area of Jericho.
Ghareeb identified that the group of settlers had arrange one other settlement outpost in the identical space about two weeks in the past.
He mentioned that “the creation of these settlement outposts aligns with colonial plans openly driven by the far-right Israeli occupation government.”
In response to the European trio Spain, Norway and Ireland recognizing Palestine as an unbiased state Wednesday, the Israeli Knesset, or parliament, accepted a preliminary studying of a invoice that proposes the annexation of land within the occupied West Bank to Israel and contemplating the world south of Hebron as a part of the Negev.
Additionally, Defense Minister Yoav Gallant instructed Wednesday “to put into effect a bill repealing the Disengagement Law in some northern West Bank areas, reopening them for Israelis for the first time since 2005,” based on the Yedioth Ahronoth each day.
In 2005, then Prime Minister Ariel Sharon ordered the evacuation of Israeli settlements in Gaza together with 4 settlements within the northern West Bank as a part of his plan for disengagement from the territory.
Earlier Thursday, the Israeli human rights heart B’Tselem revealed a plan by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s authorities to displace Palestinian shepherds from their lands within the occupied West Bank.
“In February and March 2024, B’Tselem documented some 20 incidents in which Israeli settlers and soldiers drove Palestinian shepherds out of pastureland in the South Hebron Hills,” the middle mentioned in an announcement.
Estimates point out that round 700,000 Israeli settlers stay in roughly 300 unlawful settlements within the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem.
All Jewish settlements within the occupied territories are thought of unlawful beneath worldwide legislation.
Tensions have been working excessive throughout the West Bank since Israel launched a lethal navy offensive towards the Gaza Strip after an incursion by the Palestinian resistance group Hamas on Oct. 7 final 12 months.
At least 517 Palestinians have since been killed and over 4,900 others injured by Israeli military hearth within the occupied territory, based on the Health Ministry.
Israel stands accused of genocide on the International Court of Justice, which in January issued an interim ruling that ordered it to cease genocidal acts and take measures to ensure that humanitarian help is offered to civilians in Gaza
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