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<h1 class="gmail-reader-title">Israel settlers aim to terrorise Palestinians out of their land, research finds</h1>
<div class="gmail-credits gmail-reader-credits">December 30, 2021</div>
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<div class="gmail-moz-reader-content gmail-reader-show-element"><div id="gmail-readability-page-1" class="gmail-page"><div id="gmail-post-content"> <p>"We
have no more land left for confiscation. The [Israeli] settlers have
turned into an entity organised to terrorise and deport Palestinians,"
the head of Palestine's Land Research Centre (LRC) has said.</p> <p>In an interview with <em>Quds Press</em>,
Jamal Al-Amleh explained that extremist settlers compete to rule
Israel, which in turn has unleashed the most spiteful of them to tear up
more Palestinian land, demolish more homes and kill more Palestinians.
According to the LRC, settlers "carry out systematic attacks against
Palestinians to Terrorize them out of their lands."</p> <p>"Not only did
Israel allocate a budget of 3 million dollars to give Jerusalem a more
Jewish- Israeli image, but it recruited rabbis to give religious
instructions that encourages killing Palestinians and stealing their
properties, and claim that this is a way to get closer to the god," the
organisation said in a <a href="https://www.lrcj.org/publication-8-2770.html" target="_blank">publication posted </a>on its website.</p> <blockquote><p>Palestinians
have to face Israeli Illegal colonists who steal the land and loot the
crop, and attack them even during their sleep.</p></blockquote> <p>According
to data from the Land Research Centre, Israel has demolished about 950
homes and facilities, confiscated about 24,750 dunums (6,116 acres) of
land, and cut down and damaged about 17,740 trees in 2021.</p> <p>Moreover,
data shows that as many as 55 existing settlements were expanded, about
15 new illegal outposts were erected this year, 102 plans for
settlement expansion were approved, about 25 new colonial roads were
established, and factories were opened to Judaize the land.</p> <p>"These
figures mean the paralysis of Palestinians' movement, the severing of
areas of communication, and the prevention of geographical development,"
Al-Amleh said, pointed out that out of 240 Palestinian villages in Area
C off the occupied West Bank, only 27 have obtained building permits
while settlers are free to expand and confiscate more land.</p> <p>"During
the past five years, several [Palestinian] local councils and
municipalities have submitted licensing applications for more than 2,550
buildings or structures, of which Israel approved only 24 – less than
one per cent. On the other hand, the [Israeli] occupation issued
thousands of licences for Jewish settlers," he added.</p> <p><strong>READ: </strong><strong><a title="The UN war crimes probe is still tarnished by decades of colonial support for Israel" href="https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20211230-the-un-war-crimes-probe-is-still-tarnished-by-decades-of-colonial-support-for-israel/">The UN war crimes probe is still tarnished by decades of colonial support for Israel</a></strong></p> <p>Al-Amleh
explained that the Israeli actions indicate that this is organised work
and confirms that the two-state solution option is now impossible on
the ground.</p> <p>The United Nations recently announced that since the Security Council adopted <a href="https://www.un.org/press/en/2016/sc12657.doc.htm" target="_blank">Resolution 2334</a>
on 23 December 2016, which designated Israeli settlements as a
"flagrant violation of international law", the number of settlers in the
West Bank, including East Jerusalem, has <a href="https://reliefweb.int/report/occupied-palestinian-territory/five-years-after-unsc-resolution-2334-international" target="_blank">increased 12 per cent</a>.</p> <p>Michael
Lynk, the UN special rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the
occupied Palestinian territory, said in a statement that in 2016, there
were an estimated 400,000 settlers in the West Bank, and 218,000 in
East Jerusalem, and after five years the figures have increased to
475,000 settlers in the West Bank and 230,000 in East Jerusalem.</p>
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