ARIJ: 'Israel' announced 50 settlement plans last week
Ramallah (QNN)- The head of the Settlement Monitoring Unit at the Applied Research Institute (ARIJ), Suheil Ikhleliyyeh, said that the Israeli authorities announced 50 settlement plans last week.
Ikhleliyyeh added that the plans vary between plans of land grab, the construction of new settlement units, and granting Palestinian lands to settlers.
He also said that the new settlement units are mostly going to be constructed near Jerusalem.
Ikhleliyyeh warned of the settlers' continuous attacks on Palestinians, especially that the olive harvesting season is close, noting that Israeli settlers have already damaged thousands of olive trees this year.
Israeli forces have detained and kidnapped more than 23,000 Palestinians across the occupied West Bank and eastern Jerusalem since the start of the Gaza genocide, according to the Palestinian Prisoners’ Club, which warns of escalating abuses, mass arrests of women and children, and thousands held under enforced disappearance.
US President Donald Trump has been making key decisions about the assault in Iran in a slapdash manner without input from his advisers, and was eager for a ceasefire to address rising fuel prices, according to a report from The Wall Street Journal.
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