On Sunday, October 5, 2025, the Minister Mu'ayyad Shaa’ban, head of the Colonization & Resistance Commission (CWRC), stated that since October 7, the Israeli occupation army and colonizers have launched an alarming 38,359 attacks against Palestinian lands, property, and lives. He emphasized that the Israeli government is exploiting the ongoing war and genocide against our people in the Gaza Strip and throughout the Palestinian territories to impose new realities on the ground and fragment the Palestinian geography.
Mr. Shaa’ban stated that the Israeli occupying state has adopted a clear colonial approach, taking advantage of wartime circumstances to systematically reshape Palestinian geography with blatant discriminatory undertones. That is, the Israeli government has created a coercive and hostile environment for citizens in Bedouin communities and has implemented a policy of collective punishment against the Palestinian people.
He added that all the colonial policies and measures enacted by the occupying state are carefully pre-planned actions, brought out to be executed under the guise of emergency and wartime laws. The goal of these actions is to transform the military presence of the occupation into a permanent civilian one, aimed at annexing the land, erasing the Palestinian identity, and depriving the Palestinian people of their fundamental rights.
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Mr. Shaa’ban explained that a key characteristic of the phase following horrific aggression is the accelerating pace of actions implemented by the Israeli occupying state. The occupying state has accelerated its colonial measures on the ground. On the one hand, it has increased land confiscations, and on the other hand, it has accelerated the proposal of master plans for expanding colonies established on Palestinian lands, as well as the construction and legalization of colonial agricultural outposts. Additionally, colonizers and colonial organizations have been given significant control over their actions against the Palestinian people's resources. This includes carrying out demolition operations, monitoring Palestinian construction, and providing protection for criminal colonizers, all backed by an unprecedented number of proposed laws in the Knesset.
The Israeli occupying state has seized 55,000 dunams of Palestinian lands and established 25 buffer zones around colonies.
Mr. Shaa’ban stated that this aggression against our people in the Gaza Strip is concealed by the systematic confiscation of Palestinian land affecting 55000 dunums. Of the total seized, 20,000 dunams were taken under the pretext of amending the boundaries of nature reserves, while 26,000 dunams were expropriated through 14 declarations of state land in the governorates of Jerusalem, Nablus, Ramallah, Bethlehem, and Qalqilia. Additionally, 1,756 dunams have been confiscated through 108 seizure orders for military purposes, which are aimed at establishing military towers, security roads, and buffer zones around the colonies. Furthermore, there is an aggressive campaign to fragment Palestinian land by expanding bypass roads and constructing roads exclusively for colonizers, which facilitates the connection of colonial blocs and isolates the Palestinian presence.
Mr. Shaa’ban explained that after October 7, the Israeli occupying state began establishing buffer zones around the colonies through a series of military orders. In total, 25 buffer zones were created, most of which are concentrated in the northern West Bank. Specifically, the governorates are as follows: Nablus has 5 buffer zones, Salfit has 4, Qalqilia has 2, and Tulkarm and Tubas each have 1 buffer zone. Meanwhile, there are also 5 buffer zones in the Ramallah governorate, 5 in Bethlehem, and 1 in Hebron. Mr. Shaa’ban warned that this measure could expand to include other colonies, further isolating land and preventing citizens from accessing it under military and security pretexts, all in preparation for its transfer for the benefit of the colonies.
The Israeli Planning authorities proposed 355 master plans and legalized 11 colonial outposts.
Mr. Shaa’ban reported that, after October 7, the planning authorities in the Israeli occupying state proposed 355 master plans for the construction of 37,415 colonial units across an area of 38,551 dunams. Of these, 18,801 units were approved, while an additional 18,614 new colonial units were deposited.
These master plans were primarily concentrated in Jerusalem Governorate, which had 148 master plans (44 plans outside the boundaries of the occupation municipality and 104 within colonies located inside the municipal borders). Meanwhile, there were 51 master plans in Bethlehem Governorate, 48 plans in Salfit, 38 plans in Ramallah, 20 in Qalqilia, and 19 in Nablus.
Additionally, the Israeli occupying state decided to designate 13 colonial neighborhoods as official neighborhoods and has moved forward with a decision to establish 22 new colonies. Additionally, the government approved to legalize 11 outposts through governmental decisions, adding these to a list of 68 agricultural outposts for which the occupation government is providing all necessary infrastructure to establish them on citizens' lands.
Mr. Sha’ban added that since October 7th, the Israeli occupation army and the colonizers’ militias have carried out a total of 38,359 assaults. These assaults were concentrated in the Hebron Governorate with 6,451 assaults, followed by Nablus Governorate with 5,863 assaults, Ramallah with 5,684 assaults, and the Jerusalem Governorate with 4,915 assaults. The colonizers alone carried out 7,154 assaults. These assaults were concentrated in the Nablus Governorate with 1,688 assaults and the Hebron Governorate with 1,504 assaults. These assaults led to the martyrdom of 33 Palestinian citizens at the hands of colonizers.
The Colonizers Set 767 Fires, Forcibly Displaced 33 Bedouin Communities, and Damaged 48,728 Trees.
Mr. Sha’ban stated that after October 7th, the occupation army and colonizers intentionally caused damage by setting a total of 767 fires on citizens' properties and fields. These included 221 fires on citizens' properties and 546 fires in fields and agricultural lands. He added that these assaults were concentrated in the Ramallah Governorate with 244 fires, Nablus with 214 fires, followed by Hebron with 51 fires and Tulkarm with 46 fires.
Mr. Sha’ban said that the most dangerous forms of the colonizers' assaults are the coercive, expulsive environment they are systematically imposing, which has resulted in the forcible displacement of dozens of Bedouin communities. He added that this constitutes a state-level strategy, the implementation of which has been delegated to the armed settler-colonists who intimidate citizens with weapons and deprive them of grazing areas and water.
The actions of the occupation and the terror of its colonizer militias led to the forcible displacement of 33 Palestinian Bedouin communities, consisting of 455 families comprising 2,853 individuals, from their homes to other places. The most recent of these were the displacements of Deir ‘Alla, ‘Ein Ayyub, Al-Malihat, Maghayir Al-Deir, and others, with the colonizers taking control of the locations.
Mr. Sha’ban also clarified that the assaults by the colonizer militias, involving a systematic targeting of Palestinian trees, particularly olive trees, resulted in the uprooting, destruction, and damage of a total of 48,728 trees, including 37,237 olive trees. The governorates of Nablus, Bethlehem, Hebron, and Ramallah bore the largest share of this damage. He added that, following October 7th, and following directives from the official level, the colonizers established 114 new colonial outposts, which is an unprecedented number in the policy of imposing facts on the ground through intimidation. These were concentrated in the Ramallah governorate with 30 new outposts, Hebron with 25, Nablus with 18, and Bethlehem with 14 new outposts.
Meanwhile, the number of permanent and temporary barriers (gates, military, or earthen barriers) that fragment the Palestinian territories and impose restrictions on the movement of individuals and goods has, to date, reached a total of 916 military barriers and gates. More than 243 of these iron gates were positioned after October 7th.
The Israeli Occupation Carried Out 1,014 Demolition Operations, and Distributed 1,667 Demolition Notifications against Palestinian Facilities.
Mr. Sha’ban noted that since October 7th, the occupation authorities have carried out a total of 1,014 demolition operations, representing a significant and dangerous escalation in measures targeting Palestinian facilities. He clarified that the demolition operations affected 3,679 facilities, including 1,288 inhabited homes, 244 uninhabited homes, and 962 agricultural and other facilities. These were concentrated in the Jerusalem Governorate with 880 facilities, the Hebron Governorate with 529 facilities, and the Tulkarm Governorate with 464 facilities.
Mr. Sha’ban reported that the occupation authorities have issued 1,667 demolition notifications targeting Palestinian facilities. These were concentrated in the governorates of Hebron, Ramallah, Bethlehem, Jericho, Jerusalem, Nablus, and Qalqilya. He added that among these notifications were 22 administrative notifications delivered to the residents of Al-Malhah village in the eastern wilderness of Bethlehem, an area classified as Area “C” under the Oslo Accords. He emphasized that this action establishes a dangerous precedent affecting Palestinian construction in a natural reserve that falls under the planning jurisdiction of the State of Palestine.
Mr. Sha’ban affirmed that confronting this fierce colonial assault is not the responsibility of a single faction, but rather a collective national duty. Our people, with all its components, official and civil institutions, national factions, and youth and popular sectors, are called upon today to shoulder their full role in protecting their land, identity, and historical rights. He emphasized that a united front and collective will form the primary defense against policies of displacement and dispossession, and are what will ensure the failure of the occupation's plans and colonial projects.