These findings were presented in a report issued by the Wall and Settlement Resistance Commission to mark the 49th anniversary of the Palestinian Land Day.

   The commission focused in its report on the most prominent measures committed by the occupation forces to seize Palestinian land, exploiting the aggression against the Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip for more than sixteen months to encroach on Palestinian territory through seizure, imposition of fait accompli, and closure.

   The head of the commission, Mu’ayyad Shaaban, said that the occupation authorities have seized more than 52,000 dunams of Palestinian land since the beginning of the aggression, including 46,000 dunams in 2024, under various pretexts, including declarations of nature reserves, state lands, military orders, and others.

   Over the past period, the commission said that Israel has also issued 13 military orders requiring the establishment of buffer zones around colonies, in an attempt to prevent local citizens from accessing thousands of dunams of land, paving the way for the seizure and dispossession of citizens.

   The area seized by the occupation forces under the pretext of state land amounted to more than 24,000 dunams, the largest such seizure in more than three decades.

   In addition, during the same period, the report says that Israeli authorities have set up over 898 military checkpoints and gates across the occupied West Bank, further compounding the daily challenges faced by Palestinians in their movement across the region.

   Shaaban went on to say that the total number of demolition notices distributed last year reached over 939, including demolition and stop construction notices, noting that 60% of which were concentrated in the governorates of Hebron, Bethlehem, Ramallah, and Jerusalem.

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