WEST BANK, (Palestine Foundation Information Center), The Hamas Movement has condemned Israel’s decision to expand settlements’ influence areas in the occupied West Bank, calling it a deliberate effort to seize more Palestinian land and accelerate the displacement of Palestinians.
In a statement on Wednesday, Hamas warned that the Israeli occupation’s escalating land annexations across the West Bank are aimed at systematically depopulating Palestinian areas and turning them into isolated enclaves.
Hamas stressed that Israel’s settlement projects would grant it neither sovereignty over Palestinian land nor long-term security and stability.
The Movement called on the international community to move beyond rhetoric, hold Israel accountable, and enforce compliance with international law to curb settlement expansion.
The Israeli occupation authority approved on Tuesday 18 new illegal settlement “influence areas” in the occupied West Bank, paving the way for future settlement expansion.
