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Archaeology and the Cultural and Natural Heritage: A Tool to Grab Land for Colonization and Expropriation on the West Bank

This policy paper will attempt to highlight how Israel uses Palestinian archaeology and the Palestinian cultural and natural heritage in order to grab land in the West Bank on which to build Zionist nationalist and religious settlements and thus to facilitate their annexation by Israel.

About the Project

On October 7, an intensive Israeli aggression against the West Bank in different fields and sectors began. Although this targeting was prior to October 7, what happened after October 7 was an increase in the frequency, spatial and structural area of targeting, and an increase in the structure and intensity of the targeting. Israeli colonization continued killing, displacement, detention, demolition and destruction, targeting camps and infrastructure, and heavily targeting areas such as the Al-Aghwar area and South Hebron area. The occupation bulldozed agricultural lands, streets and mountainous areas, and deployed various control structures such as checkpoints, gates, cameras and concrete blocks in order to control Controlling and punishing the people of the West Bank, and preparing for displacement and genocide.

As part of colonial policies parallel to the war on the Gaza Strip, the West Bank continues to be targeted and there are sporadic and continuous acts of extermination in different areas of the West Bank, including: attacks by settlers and settlement expansion. Recently, a law was adopted to annex the area of South Hebron. Under the cover of the war on Gaza, a new field and political reality is being imposed in the West Bank, aimed at continuing and accelerating changes that prevent the formation of geographical and demographic communication that allows any expression of a Palestinian political entity Read more

 

خارطة تفاعلية للضفة الغربية

خرائط مختارة للضفة الغربية

حركة السلام الآن، أوتشا، الجهاز المركزي للإحصاء الفلسطيني
الجمعية الفلسطينية الأكاديمية للشؤون الدولية (باسيا)
الجمعية الفلسطينية الأكاديمية للشؤون الدولية (باسيا)

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مركز معلومات وادي حلوة
مركز معلومات وادي حلوة
مركز معلومات وادي حلوة