Israel intensifies control over West Bank lands through confiscation, settlement, and resource plunder
Jad Ishaq, director of the Applied Research Institute–Jerusalem (ARIJ), warned of Israel's escalation of measures to control Palestinian lands in the West Bank through military orders, land classification declarations, and expansion of settlements, pointing out that these measures aim to isolate Palestinian communities from their agricultural lands and threaten to isolate 118,000 dunams.
Jad Ishaq, director of the Applied Research Institute–Jerusalem (ARIJ), warned of Israel's escalation of measures aimed at controlling Palestinian lands in the occupied West Bank. These measures include military orders, declarations classifying land as 'state land,' expansion of settlements and outposts, and domination over natural resources. Ishaq explained in an interview with Anadolu that these measures target isolating Palestinian population centers from their agricultural lands and limiting Palestinians' ability to access and utilize them. He noted that the 'red line' in the Tubas area north of the West Bank comes in the context of separating agricultural lands from communities. He highlighted an Israeli project in the northern Jordan Valley region involving military orders to seize lands and carve a path separating communities from their agricultural and grazing lands, threatening to isolate about 118,000 dunams of Palestinian land and depriving hundreds of families of access to their lands and livelihoods. Ishaq stressed that these measures will not prevent Palestinians from continuing to access and hold onto their lands.