Daoud: Settlement Expansion Risks Palestinian Livelihoods

The report by Amir Daoud, Director General of the Documentation and Publishing Unit at the Committee to Resist the Wall and Settlements, highlights the escalating pace of settlement expansion in the West Bank in recent years. He clarified that this expansion is not limited to land appropriation alone but has extended to include water sources, pastures, the agricultural sector, and livestock, thereby threatening the Palestinians’ ability to survive and withstand in their land. He also pointed out that settlement measures have become faster and more imposeful of faits accomplis on the ground, with settlements being rebuilt in areas such as Jenin and the Jordan Valley, as well as attacks on Palestinian water sources and properties. The report notes that Israeli governments have confiscated around 100,000 dunams since the end of 2022 and approved the establishment of over 104 new settlements. It also highlights an increase in policies leading to de facto annexation, even without official declaration, accompanied by criticism over the loss of Palestinian rights resulting from international negligence in implementing resolutions. Furthermore, he emphasized that settlement activity is transforming the geography of the West Bank and undermining Palestinian livelihoods, with rising rates of confiscations and assaults, as well as ongoing measures that encourage the imposition of on-the-ground facts that Israel considers a form of "de facto annexation."

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