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Israeli authorities have issued notices to seize thousands of square meters of private Palestinian land in the occupied West Bank. Ghassan Daghlas, a Palestinian Authority official in charge of monitoring Israel’s settlement expansion activities, said that hundreds of dunums of Palestinian land would be confiscated from the towns and villages of Salfit Governorate under the Israeli orders, the Palestinian Information Center reported on Sunday.

In recent months, the Israeli regime has seized thousands of dunums of Palestinian land in the West Bank and Jerusalem al-Quds to build roads, walls, and housing units for settlers.

In addition, Israeli authorities forcibly demolished hundreds of homes and structures and uprooted thousands of olive and palm trees belonging to Palestinians.

The anti-settlement monitoring group Peace Now earlier this year said figures, gathered from official Israeli sources, showed an increase in the construction of settler units in 2018 and a sharp spike in planning for future construction.

Israeli forces aim a tear gas launcher during clashes with Palestinian protesters following a demonstration against Israeli land seizures for settlements, in the village of Ras Karkar, about 11 kilometers northwest of Ramallah, in the occupied West Bank, on November 16, 2018.

(Photo by AFP) Israel has launched a new settlement push in the West Bank since President Donald Trump took office in early 2017.

Less than a month before Trump took office, the United Nations Security Council adopted Resolution 2334, calling on Israel to “immediately and completely cease all settlement activities in the occupied Palestinian territories, including East Jerusalem” al-Quds.

About 600,000 Israelis live in over 230 illegal settlements built since the 1967 Israeli occupation of the Palestinian territories of the West Bank and East Jerusalem al-Quds.

Palestinians want the West Bank as part of a future independent Palestinian state with East Jerusalem al-Quds as its capital

Original Article Source: Press TV | Published on Sunday, 17 November 2019 16:09 (about 1593 days ago)