Ramallah, April 3, 2026: The head of the Colonization and Wall Resistance Commission, Minister Mua’yyad Sha'ban, stated that Israeli occupation forces and colonizers carried out a total of 1,819 attacks during the month of March, continuing the pattern of systematic terrorism practiced by the occupation state against the Palestinian people, their land, and their property. Mr. Sha'ban explained in the Commission's monthly report, titled "Occupation Violations and Colonial Expansion Measures," that the occupation army carried out 1,322 attacks, while colonizers carried out 497 attacks. He noted that these attacks were concentrated mainly in the Hebron governorate with 321 attacks, followed by the Nablus governorate with 315 attacks, then the Ramallah and Al-Bireh governorate with 292 attacks, and the Jerusalem governorate with 203 attacks, a clear indicator of the intensity of systematic targeting of these areas.
Mr. Sha'ban stated that the attacks took multiple forms, including direct physical violence, uprooting of trees, burning of fields, preventing farmers from accessing their land, seizure of property, as well as demolition of homes and agricultural facilities. He noted that these practices are accompanied by the occupation forces closing off vast areas of Palestinian land under the pretext of "security," while providing protection and enabling colonizers to expand within them.
Forced Displacement of Bedouin Communities Due to Colonizer Terrorism
Mr. Sha'ban noted that colonizer attacks reached 497 attacks. This number constitutes a peak of colonizer terrorism that targeted Palestinian villages and Bedouin communities, concentrated in the Nablus governorate with 113 attacks, Hebron with 110 attacks, and Ramallah and Al-Bireh with 90 attacks.
He stated that these attacks led to the forced displacement of 6 Palestinian Bedouin communities, affecting 58 families comprising 256 people, including 79 women and 166 children.
He added that colonizers carried out 256 property vandalism incidents and 51 acts of confiscation and theft of Palestinian property. Their attacks also affected vast areas of Palestinian land, and colonizer attacks, with the assistance of the occupation army, resulted in the uprooting, vandalism, and poisoning of 2,286 trees, including 2,121 olive trees, distributed across the Ramallah and Al-Bireh governorate with 881 trees, Nablus, 500 trees, Bethlehem, 325 trees, and Hebron, 285 trees.
Mr. Sha'ban affirmed that these figures once again confirm that what is taking place represents a clear and systematic policy of forced displacement, carried out through colonizer terrorism under the direct protection of the occupation state, aimed at emptying the land of its people and dismantling Palestinian presence in Bedouin communities. He added that the displacement of families and the destruction of property, land, and trees constitute a compound crime against both people and place, and an inseparable part of a gradual de facto annexation project driven by intensive terrorism that has not ceased or retreated despite the clarity of the crime and the ongoing condemnation from countries around the world.
Attempts to Establish 20 New Colonial Outposts
He noted that colonizers attempted to establish 20 new colonial outposts since the beginning of last March, predominantly agricultural and pastoral in nature, across the Nablus and Ramallah and Al-Bireh governorates with 4 attempts each, Bethlehem governorate with 3 attempts, Tubas, Salfit, and Hebron governorates with 2 attempts each, and Qalqilya, Jenin, and Jerusalem governorates with 1 attempt each. Mr. Sha'ban affirmed that the escalation of colonial outpost establishment attempts in this recent phase could only be occurring under clear instructions from the political level within the occupation state, with the aim of imposing facts on the ground and further fragmenting Palestinian geography. Colonizers carry out changes on the ground, and then the official level converts these changes into a fait accompli by legalizing, entrenching, and transforming them into colonial sites furnished with all services.
Seizure of 231 Dunums of Citizens' Land
Mr. Sha'ban stated that the occupation authorities in last March seized, through a series of military orders, 225 dunums of citizens' land via 12 land seizure orders, in addition to a state land declaration order targeting 6.83 dunums of citizens' land in the town of Al-Jib in the Jerusalem governorate. The seizure orders were concentrated in the governorates of Ramallah, Jenin, Jerusalem, Jericho, Tubas, Nablus, and Salfit, for the purpose of constructing military roads and establishing posts and buffer zones. The largest was military order No. T/3/26, which confiscated 128 dunums from the land of the town of Arraba in the Jenin governorate for the construction of a military post, and another numbered T/37/26 targeting lands of Eastern Marza, Silwad, and Deir Jarir, confiscating 41 dunams to establish a security buffer zone around Jabal Al-Asur.
The occupation authorities also issued a total of 27 military orders under the designation of "security measures orders," requiring the removal of trees from 1,391 dunums of citizens' land across the Ramallah governorate with 12 orders, Jenin with 3 orders, and 2 orders each for Qalqilya, Tulkarm, Nablus, Salfit, Bethlehem, and Jerusalem. The largest was military order No. 9/26, targeting the tree cover of 380 dunums in the villages of Silwad, Attara, and Ain Siniya north of the Ramallah governorate, as well as an order targeting 139 dunums of Ramin in the Tulkarm governorate, and another targeting 95 dunums of the towns of Beita and Huwara in the Nablus governorate.
Mr. Sha'ban affirmed that these declarations come at a dangerous political moment in which legislation, master plans, and confiscation decisions converge with colonial tenders to form an integrated system aimed at imposing irreversible facts on the ground, and transforming the occupation from a temporary condition into a permanent system of forced sovereignty.
Demolition of 40 Facilities and Notification to Demolish 12 Others
He noted that the occupation authorities carried out 18 demolition operations in March, affecting 40 facilities, including 21 inhabited homes, 6 agricultural facilities, and 11 livelihoods, concentrated in the Qalqilya governorate with 15 facilities, Hebron with 13 facilities, and Jerusalem with 8 facilities, among others. Mr. Sha'ban also stated that the occupation authorities also distributed 12 demolition notifications for Palestinian facilities, continuing the pattern of restricting Palestinian construction and the natural growth of Palestinian villages and towns, which is currently being heavily translated into demolition operations. The notifications were concentrated in the Ramallah and Al-Bireh, Jenin, and Jerusalem governorates with 3 notifications each, Hebron with 2 notifications, and Nablus with 1 notification.
Review of 12 Master Plans for Colonies
Mr. Sha'ban noted that the planning authorities of the occupation state reviewed in March a total of 12 master plans for the benefit of West Bank colonies and within the occupation's municipal boundaries in Jerusalem, with 9 master plans for West Bank colonies and 3 plans for colonies within Jerusalem's occupation municipal boundaries.
He added that the occupation municipality in Jerusalem deposited 2 plans for subsequent approval and approved another plan covering 591 colonial units on an area of 40 dunums, of which 2 units have been approved. Meanwhile, the planning authorities of the so-called “Civil Administration” reviewed 9 master plans for West Bank colonies, approving 4 and depositing 5 others for subsequent approval, with the aim of constructing a total of 456 units. The largest of these plans was related to the "Halamish" colony, aimed at building 456 colonial units on 980.3 dunums of citizens' land for the purpose of expanding the colony.