12 Dec. 2025: The head of the Colonization and Wall Resistance Commission, Minister Moayyad Shaaban, stated that the Israeli so-called Cabinet’s approval of the regularization and establishment of 19 new colonies across the occupied West Bank constitutes another step in the race to erase the Palestinian geography in favor of the Israeli colonial settlement project.
Shaaban described the decision as a dangerous escalation that exposes the true intentions of the occupation government to entrench a system of annexation, apartheid, and full Judaization of Palestinian land.
He added, “This move comes as part of a deliberate policy led by the government of colonizers headed by Netanyahu and Smotrich, aimed at legalizing colonial outposts and transforming them into officially recognized colonies, thereby consolidating Israel’s permanent control over the occupied Palestinian territories.”
Shaaban stressed that this decision represents a flagrant violation of international law and of UN Security Council resolutions, particularly Resolution 2334, sounding the alarm over the future of the West Bank, which is facing a systematic colonial campaign intended to uproot the Palestinian presence and turn towns and villages into isolated, besieged enclaves.
He explained that the latest approval comes within a clear escalation of Israel’s colonial settlement project, which proceeds according to a comprehensive plan to implant the largest possible number of colonial clusters across Palestinian geography, with the aim of geographic fragmentation and subjugating Palestinian life to the logic of colonial madness.
Shaaban emphasized that this announcement follows a series of major decisions by the occupation government concerning colonies: on March 23, 2025, Israel announced the separation of 13 colonial neighborhoods from larger colonies and their recognition as independent ones, granting them administrative and security powers and expanding the area under colonizers’ control deep inside Palestinian land.
This was followed on May 29, 2025, by another decision to convert 22 colonial outposts into recognized colonies, which at the time represented the most dangerous “legalization” of illegal colonial sites in decades.
Shaaban noted that, with the Cabinet’s current approval to establish and regularize 19 new colonies, it is clear that these decisions are not isolated events, but rather successive stages of a comprehensive colonial project aimed at imposing a new reality on the ground one that precedes any potential political solution and confirms that the current occupation government is pursuing a strategic vision to terminate the possibility of establishing a geographically contiguous Palestinian state by expanding colonies and linking them through colonial and security road networks serving only the colonizers.
He affirmed that the Colonization and Wall Resistance Commission, in cooperation with all official and popular bodies, will continue its legal, diplomatic, and field efforts to expose Israel’s colonial crimes before the international community, calling for urgent action by the United Nations and the High Contracting Parties to the Geneva Conventions to halt this dangerous expansion.
Shaaban concluded by reaffirming that the Palestinian people remain steadfast in their land and historical rights, and that no colonial projects regardless of their extremism or aggression will succeed in breaking the will of the Palestinian people.