Busy Jerusalem The Israeli Ministerial Council for Security and Political Affairs (Cabinet) approved a proposal submitted by the Minister of Finance to Salafel Smotrich, to separate 13 colonies in the West Bank occupied by the adjacent colonies, and to start the procedures for recognizing independent regulations.
The cabinet’s decision comes within the framework of a plan to include parts of the West Bank towards Israeli sovereignty, led by the “Religious Zionist” watercourse led by Smotrich, and the “Grand Jew” party led by Etamar Bin Ghafir, a plan that has the support of large circles of the Likud party led by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
The decision is in accordance with the project, which is motivated by Smotrich, who is also Minister of the Ministry of Defense, and aims to extend the colonization project and the legitimacy of the pre-pubosts which have been established on Palestinian land with private property, as well as the final approval of the law which allows the colonists to have land and private property in the western bank.
In this report, we highlight the cabinet’s decision, its meanings and connotations, and to what extent does it contribute to placing its hand on more Palestinian land? This is in the light of the ratification of the inclusion of tens of thousands of homes in the West Bank, from the contribution of the decision to the legitimacy of the colonization project and the inclusion of colony blocks with large areas of land in Israel.
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What is the firm’s decision? What does the settlement of settlement separate?
The cabinet approved the proposal of the Minister Smotrich to separate 13 colonies in the West Bank from the adjacent colonies, and work to recognize and extend them by adding more land surfaces intended for construction, which are mainly land that are placed and confiscated from the Palestinians, according to the newspaper “Yediot Aharonot”.
The newspaper said that “the measure led by Minister Smotrich within the framework of the regulation department under his responsibility takes place in the context of the approval of the construction of tens of thousands of housing in the West Bank”, which is another important step in the process of standardization, organization, colony regulations and legitimize the exuces.
Yossi Dagan, head of colonies in the West Bank, wrote a letter to the colonists, saying: “Good news for the regulations in Judea and Samaria (West Bank) and throughout the State of Israel (Historical Palestine), and another important step in the organization of the status of emerging colonies and legitimately outposts.”
“We realize that the independence of the colonies is necessary to develop and improve the regulations and extend it, it is another step, but it is not the latter, we will continue to work with full force to organize all the colonies, implement the annexation plan and impose sovereignty in Samaria.”
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What does the decision mean in the Smutrich plan to include the West Bank?
The cabinet’s decision is another step in the process of standardization and organization of regulations, as well as a means of bypassing the government’s previous decisions to prevent the construction of new colonies in the West Bank, as well as by bypassing the decisions of the Supreme Court concerning the expansion of the regulations and the obstruction of the laundering process and legitimization of the tests.
This decision will considerably facilitate the expansion of the colonies and the approval of the construction of tens of thousands of homes, and it opens the way to walk with stable stages towards the annexation, according to the perception of the minister Smotrich, which declared that “stages to impose sovereignty on the West Bank have been launched”, according to what was reported by the Israeli canal.
“We continue to direct the normalization and the revolution of the organization in the colonies instead of hiding and excluding ourselves, we raise the banner of the colony, construction and regulations,” said Minister Smotrich.
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Which colony districts will be independent? Where is the West Bank?
Talking about the colonization districts in the West Bank is located next to 13 large colonization blocks in all regions of the West Bank, both in the south, the center, the North, the Jordan valley and the Dead Sea.
This means establishing 13 new colonies throughout the West Bank, and granting them all the facilities to extend the Palestinian territories, whether to build settlement housing units or to extend the project of agricultural regulations and support the colonial economy, according to the newspaper “Haaretz”.
The colony districts included in the cabinet’s decision in preparation for the recognition of their independence are: “Alon, Harashha, Kerem Raim, Neria, Megron, Shafut Rachel, Evannit and Brouch Habaqa, Layshim, Noufy Noufia and Tal Mouta, and Evy Hanhaf and Gamat.”
The residential districts are stationed in the governors of Ramallah, Bethlehem, Nablus, Salfit, Tubas, Jenin, Al -Aghwar and the Dead Sea region, and they are already based on thousands of dunums confiscated by the Palestinian population.
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What are the stages of implementing the decision and the reality of the draft payment?
The steps and procedures for implementing the decision are entitled to obtain a green light from the civil administration of the central region in the israeli army, but it is subject to the powerers and instructions of smotrich, which leads in this goverment a “settlement management” Project in the West Bank, which the expansion of Settlements and the Declaration that they are independent, as well as building tens of thousands of settlement units, something that will also be among smotrich’s powerers.
From 1967 to November 2024, more than 141 independent colonies were established throughout the occupied West Bank, and there are 123 before colonies and 113 colonial farms, while the West Bank settlers are around 505,000 colonists, and during the war on the Gaza Strip, 91 settling outposts were created in the West Shore, according to the states. “Peace movement”.
During the first years of the occupation, the main mechanism that Israel used to grasp land in order to set up colonies was “the seizure of land for military purposes”, during these years, military orders were issued to confiscate around 31,000 dunums (Dunum is equal to 1,000 square meters), most of which are intended to build colonies.
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What does 13 settlers living into independent colonies mean?
The head of the authority of resistance to the wall and colonization, Minister Moayad Shaaban, said that the decision of the occupying state transformed 13 colonials living into colonies which have all the privileges and services a stage targeting Palestinian geography by falsification and tearing, a new stage which would improve colonialism of settlement on the Palestinian territories.
He added that most of these districts were established as illegal settlement foundations two decades ago, then the occupying power resumed the task of converting them into neighborhoods, in clear fraud on international law and the international position rejecting colonial construction.
In a declaration disseminated to the media, he explained that the government of the extremist right, which announced from the first day of his training that colonialism will be the absolute priority of his work, continues to implement control plans on Palestinian land and to clearly announce his intention to implement the annexation plans, to impose the sovereign and to shout the behaviors that criminal this behavior.
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What is the effect of these colonies on the reality of the life of the Palestinians?
The regulations are the most influential workers in the life of Palestinians in the West Bank, and it is a means of depriving them of their most fundamental rights to property, mobility and work, because they are like pious and affecting much further than hundreds of thousands of dunums that have been entrusted by Palestinians for their establishment, including allegations and breastfeedings.
The occupying state has confiscated land for hundreds of kilometers from the naked streets designated for the colonists, barriers and other means to restrict the movement of the Palestinians and to close the area of access by Palestinians to many of their agricultural land located inside or outside the colonies.
The Batsem center adds that the twisted demarcation of the Apartheid wall inside the West Bank’s lands aims to allow Israel to stay west of the wall as possible that the land that it is preparing to extend the colonies.
Between 1979 and 2002, the occupying power declared hundreds of thousands of dunums in the West Bank of the “lands of state” of the West Bank, where the Palestinians were deprived of their use and their entry.
Region C currently contains approximately 1.2 million dunums of “land”, which represents 36.5% of all land in the region and 22% of total West Bank, and there are currently 200,000 dunums of “state lands” in the two regions “A” and “B”.