Nablus - Saba:
Zionist settlers set up a new settlement outpost on the lands of Palestinian citizens in the village of Qaryut, south of Nablus in the West Bank.
According to the Palestinian news agency "Wafa", deputy head of the Qaryut Village Council stated that a number of settlers set up tents in the "Silon" area south of the village, in an attempt to build a new settlement on the village's lands, where they start by setting up tents, then "caravans", and then gradually expand in construction.
Most of the lands there are owned by a number of Palestinian citizens living abroad, Youssef al-Hajj Mohamed added.
In turn, Murad Ishtiwi, Director of the Wall and Settlement Resistance Commission Office in the northern West Bank, warned against seizing lands in the same area and establishing a new settlement outpost on the lands of Qaryut, south of Nablus.
He explained that the village of Qaryut is witnessing many repeated attacks by settlers, including attacks on Palestinian citizens, preventing them from picking olives, and assaulting them, the latest of which was setting up tents in a plan to seize lands there.
He called on Palestinian citizens who own lands to file a complaint with the Wall and Settlement Resistance Commission, to follow up on this legally, and not to remain silent regarding attempts to seize their lands.
"After October 7, 2023, the settlers became very active in expanding in the northern West Bank, after they received the green light from the occupation government, and began establishing colonial outposts in a deliberate manner, based on a strategy to divide the West Bank from each other, especially in the north," he said.
He noted that the Zionist enemy's plan to increase the number of settlers in the northern West Bank to one million by 2050 is an indication that the occupation government is proceeding with the silent gradual annexation of the lands, and this is evident in what we see in what is happening in the geography of the West Bank lands, from street expansions, seizing citizens' resources, and providing water and electricity networks and infrastructure for the settlements.
Ishtiwi warned against the Settlements Council taking control of the land seizure.
He said the settlement expansion aims to undermine any opportunity to establish an independent Palestinian state on the 1967 borders with East Quds its capital, which requires action at all levels to thwart these plans.
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