Abdul Rahman Shadid, a leader of the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas), affirmed that the escalating confiscation of Palestinian land by the Zionist enemy in the West Bank—most recently its decision to seize more than 150 dunams of land from the village of al-Mughayyir northeast of Ramallah—reflects the enemy’s determination to continue its systematic land-grab policies in the West Bank and to implement its broader plan of annexation and displacement.
In a statement issued today, Wednesday, and received by the Yemeni News Agency (Saba), Shadid said that this decision is inseparable from a comprehensive settlement scheme aimed at strangling Palestinian villages and isolating them from one another through the confiscation of agricultural lands, the construction of settlement roads, and the expansion of surrounding settlement outposts. He noted that this threatens citizens’ livelihoods, undermines the foundations of their steadfastness, turns land into a tool of pressure and coercion.
He stressed that the land confiscation policy falls within a framework of spatial cleansing intended to empty the land of its owners and pave the way for further settlement expansion, constituting a full-fledged war crime.
The Hamas leader emphasized that the enemy’s settlement plans require urgent action by the international community and its institutions, rather than mere expressions of concern or symbolic condemnations.
He also called on the Palestinian people to show greater steadfastness , adherence to their land and rights, to unify national efforts in support of the battle for resilience against these schemes, and to activate all means of resistance to thwart the enemy and defeat its settlement projects.
