اسرائيل توسع من دائرة النشاطات الاسرائيلية خلال العام 2017

Escalation of Israeli violations and settlement activities in the occupied State of Palestine during 2017

Israel had escalated its violations and settlement activities four‑fold in 2017. The Israeli violations and associated settlement activities have severely affected the lives of Palestinian people in the occupied State of Palestine (West Bank- including East Jerusalem – and the Gaza Strip) namely the enjoyment of their human, social, economic, religious and cultural rights.

Despite the international efforts exerted in recent years to resolve the Palestinian-Israeli conflict and to achieve a just and lasting peace in the region, the state of Israel continued to escalate its violations against the Palestinian people and continued its settlement activities in the occupied Palestinian territory, namely the confiscation of Palestinian land and the expansion of settlement outposts, the demolition campaigns that targeted hundreds of Palestinian homes and structures in the occupied West Bank as well as targeting the Palestinian agricultural sector and the uprooting of Palestinian trees, especially the olive trees, which are a major source of income to thousands of Palestinian families. This is in addition to the hundreds of demolition and stop work orders and the land confiscation orders that targeted entire Palestinian communities in the occupied State of Palestine under forged pretexts. 

The Israeli Government also continued to publish tenders and settlement plans to expand Israeli settlements throughout the occupied West Bank, particularly in Israeli settlements in the occupied city of Jerusalem.  The following report covers the period from 1 January 2017 to 31 December 2017, and highlights the most prominent events related to Israeli violations and settlement activities in the year 2017 and related statistics.  

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