Israel announced his status announcement on Wednesday 1,200 Palestinian hectares in the Jordan Valley.what anti-occupation groups consider the biggest land grab since Oslo Accords of 1993.

According to a statement from The world nowan Israeli non-governmental organization that documents colonization of Palestine, occupied by Israel since 1967, The land confiscation was approved on June 25 but was only made public on Wednesday.

Since the beginning of 2024, a year that broke all records, Israel has declared more than 2,300 hectares in the occupied West Bank as state land. the mechanism it uses, along with the naming of nature reserves and training grounds, to expel the Palestinian population and control the territory.

“(Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin) Netanyahu and (Finance Minister Bezalel) Smotrich full of determination fight the whole world and against the interests of the people of Israel in the interests of a handful of settlers “They are getting hundreds of hectares as if there was no political conflict to be resolved or war to be ended,” he lamented in a statement. The world now.

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ANNEXATION IS HAPPENING.

Netanyahu and Smotrich are determined to fight against the entire world and the interests of the people of Israel for the benefit of a handful of messianic settlers. https://t.co/DBWXTpjROM

— Peace Now (@peacenowisrael) July 3, 2024

Smotrich – who is in charge of the department in Ministry of Defence which allows settlements – announced at the end of March allocation of another 800 hectares as state lands in Jordan Valley, this adds up to 264 hectares approved on February 29 among the Israeli colonies Maale Adumim and Kedar, near Jerusalem.

In addition, the council responsible for settlement planning The Defense Department announced on Monday creation of another 6016 houses in dozens of settlements – illegal under international law – in the occupied West Bankthe final approval of which will be made in the coming days.

The construction plans include expansion of more than 1000 apartments in the village of Gwaotwhere at the moment there are only about 60 houses, as well as the creation of new microdistrict in the village of Yakir, which makes it easier for Israel to annex land in Palestinian territory.

“It’s obvious that the main goal of the current government (Netanyahu), from his decisions to his actions, is to destroy any possibility of a political solution between the Israelis and the Palestinians.“He condemned today The world now.

“It appears that from all sides, from cabinet resolutions to the work of the Planning Council, undermining the diplomatic solution is the main effort of the current government.”

Israel rents out over 6,000 housing units in West Bank settlements https://t.co/CphkDvWG9y

— Peace Now (@peacenowisrael) July 3, 2024

In the eighties Israel has declared thousands of hectares of state land. something that the government Isaac Rabin was disqualified in 1992. to facilitate peace talks culminating in the Oslo Accords – which involved the creation Palestinian State on the Borders 67 -; But Netanyahu returned to this method in 1998. and since then they have become claim more than 4,000 hectares of Palestinian land.

(according to information from EFE)