Today, the occupying state seized 170 dunums of citizens’ land in the Arab Al-Ta’amra area in Bethlehem Governorate under the pretext of declaring it as state land. This confiscation comes as the third confiscation under the pretext of state land since the beginning of the year 2024, bringing the total of lands confiscated by the occupying state under this name to a total of 11 thousand dunums.
From citizens’ lands in the governorates of Jerusalem, Nablus, and Bethlehem. The occupying state takes the declarations of state lands as a mechanism to control and seize Palestinian land as an entry point to convert it to the settlement project, if the occupying state first intends to seize the land according to this name, then it quickly announces a planning permit for these spaces that enables settlers to build on them, or by amending the borders. A nearby colony, so this space will be designated for settlement expansion The military order in this regard indicates that the confiscated area is located in Natural Basin No. 4 for the Al-Uqban and Al-Furaidis areas and Natural Basin No. 11 for the Fadel plot in the Al-Taamra lands.
The spatial data associated with the order allocated to this announcement indicate that the goal of the announcement is to carry out expansion operations for the Sidi Bar colony established on citizens’ lands in Al-Uqban, the town of Al-Taamra in the governorate.