Minister Moayad Shaaban and the CWRC staff met today with the residents of the Wadi Al-Siq community, east of Ramallah governorate. Shaaban listened to their needs and discussed with them ways to strengthen their steadfastness in light of the continuous attacks on the community by the occupation forces and settler militias, especially the recent residence of these settlers. for a colonial outpost near them.
Shaaban discussed with the people the mechanisms available to repel settler attacks and the means of protecting the land, in light of the colonial incursion, and the attempt to control their pastures, since their main dependence depends directly on livestock.
In the recent period, the occupation authorities seek to use many names and means in order to control the Palestinian land, the most dangerous of which is what has become known as agricultural and pastoral outposts, which is an unofficial means in which the criminality of settlers overlaps under the full auspices of the official apparatus of the occupying state in order to control vast areas of land. By force of arms and with the protection of the army.
The latest CWRC's data indicates that there are a total of 82 agricultural and pastoral outposts that control a total of more than 270,000 dunums of citizens’ lands, especially in the Jordan Valley and the eastern slopes, in a systematic occupation means to fully control the Jordan Valley and deprive the Palestinians of their strategic food reservoir.