Zionist Regime Turning 36 West Bank Nature Reserves Into Settlements
WEST BANK (Dispatches) – Zionist regime officials control 36 areas in Area C of the occupied West Bank and are planning to convert them into illegal settlements and military camps, Jordanian Assabeel newspaper reported.
General Director of natural resources at the Palestine Authority (PA)’s Environment Quality Authority Issa Musa indicated that there are 50 nature reserves in the West Bank, including 36 in Area C, which are occupied by the regime.
Musa explained that there are 11,000 dunams of fertile farmlands located in Ariha extending to the eastern West Bank city of Tubas, on which the occupying regime intends to build illegal settlements and military camps.
According to Musa, the Environment Quality Authority documents all aggressions by the regime on these areas in order to raise them with the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity who will take the necessary steps.
Meanwhile, Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor has documented a sharp increase in the Zionist regime’s demolition of European Union (EU)-funded Palestinian projects built in occupied territories, a report issued over the weekend revealed.
According to the report, which was circulated by world news agencies, in 2019 the Euro-Med monitor documented a record high of 204 Palestinian structures that the regime had demolished in East al-Quds alone, representing a spike when compared with previous years.
The Zionist regime further demolished or seized 127 structures funded by international donors, mainly the EU and its member states, in East al-Quds and Area C, twice as much as in 2018.
"Despite the coronavirus pandemic and the accompanying economic crisis, Netanyahu’s cabinet has significantly stepped up the demolition of Palestinian structures further,” the report explained.
General Director of natural resources at the Palestine Authority (PA)’s Environment Quality Authority Issa Musa indicated that there are 50 nature reserves in the West Bank, including 36 in Area C, which are occupied by the regime.
Musa explained that there are 11,000 dunams of fertile farmlands located in Ariha extending to the eastern West Bank city of Tubas, on which the occupying regime intends to build illegal settlements and military camps.
According to Musa, the Environment Quality Authority documents all aggressions by the regime on these areas in order to raise them with the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity who will take the necessary steps.
Meanwhile, Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor has documented a sharp increase in the Zionist regime’s demolition of European Union (EU)-funded Palestinian projects built in occupied territories, a report issued over the weekend revealed.
According to the report, which was circulated by world news agencies, in 2019 the Euro-Med monitor documented a record high of 204 Palestinian structures that the regime had demolished in East al-Quds alone, representing a spike when compared with previous years.
The Zionist regime further demolished or seized 127 structures funded by international donors, mainly the EU and its member states, in East al-Quds and Area C, twice as much as in 2018.
"Despite the coronavirus pandemic and the accompanying economic crisis, Netanyahu’s cabinet has significantly stepped up the demolition of Palestinian structures further,” the report explained.