New Israeli measures allow Israel to ‘take land, get rid of people’
Al Jazeera correspondent Nour Odeh says the measures approved by Israel’s security cabinet allow it to “take the land and get rid of the people all at once.”
“Now what will happen is that Palestinian land will be open to the pressure of Israeli settler organisations,” who can employ both funds and intimidation, Oheh said, speaking from Al Jazeera’s studio in Doha.
“We’ve seen when settlers wanted a specific house in Hebron, they targeted the family until it yields or until it cannot longer stay in that place. Palestinians will either be forced out or bought out, but then if that entire building becomes the property of settlers, the surrounding buildings will also pose a threat to them – and on and on it goes.”
Odeh said Hebron is known as the “microcosm of occupation” as it has settler-only roads while Palestinian movement is curtailed. While international law clearly states Israeli occupation of Palestinian territories is illegal, now “every Palestinian population centre will be threatened by the entry of Israeli settlers”, she added.
Palestinian PM calls on international community to halt Israeli measures
Prime Minister Mohammad Mustafa has called on the international community to take serious and concrete steps to halt Israel’s expansionism warning it could repeat the crimes it’s committed the Gaza Strip in the West Bank.
He made the comments in a meeting with representatives from Canada, the United Kingdom, the European Union, Norway, and the Netherlands, Wafa news agency reported.
Mustafa called for international efforts to stabilise the second phase of the Gaza peace process, prevent more war, and accelerate recovery and reconstruction in the Strip.
Israeli army raids Hebron, South Hebron Hills amid settler attacks
A Palestinian man has been wounded while others suffered tear-gas inhalation during an Israeli military incursion in central Hebron, in the south of the occupied West Bank.
Separately, a Palestinian activist told Wafa news agency that Israeli forces stormed a community in the Masafer Yatta area, in the South Hebron Hills, and fired stun grenades and tear gas cannisters at residents.
Two Masafer Yatta residents also were detained by Israeli soldiers after they were attacked by Israeli settlers.
Palestinians have faced a wave of intensified Israeli military and settler violence across the West Bank since Israel’s war on Gaza began in October 2023.
