Nablus, December 6, 2025 (WAFA) – A report prepared by the National Bureau for Defending the Land and Resisting Settlement said that the Tubas Governorate and the northern Jordan Valley are in the circle of direct danger due to colonial plans, which have recently increased in pace.
The office added in its weekly report, which monitors the period from November 27 to December 5, that despite US President Donald Trump’s pledge to the leaders of a number of Arab and Islamic countries to prevent Israel from annexing the West Bank or parts of it, the ongoing developments in the Tubas Governorate and the northern Jordan Valley confirm that they are in the circle of direct danger, more than ever before.
He pointed out that the occupation authorities recently issued, as is well known, nine new military orders to seize large areas of land in the governorate, including privately owned lands and others classified as state lands, with the aim of establishing a new military road linking “Ein Shibli” and the village of “Tayasir”, with a length of more than 40 kilometers, extending from the lands of Tammun, passing through the plain of Al-Baqi’a east of the village of Atouf, and the area of Ainun in Tubas, reaching the area of Yarza east of Tubas, and up to the lands located east of the village of Tayasir .
He explained that the commander of the Central Command in the occupation army, Avi Blot, along with the settler leaders, launched an open war on the governorate at dawn on the 26th of last month, which he called “The Five Stones,” referring to five areas where the operation is concentrated, including: the city of Tubas, the town of Tammun, the town of Aqaba, the town of Tayasir, and the Al-Far’a camp and its surroundings, under flimsy security pretexts .
The report noted that it is clear from the course of this war on the governorate, which lasted for two weeks, that the security needs raised by the occupation army are being used as a cover for expansionist political and field steps aimed at restricting the Palestinians and destroying the foundations of Palestinian agriculture. Restricting farmers is being practiced as a means of pressure aimed, on the one hand, at weakening the Palestinian agricultural sector, and on the other hand, at preparing the land for seizure, ultimately leading to the displacement of citizens from the entire region.
He explained that the ongoing military operations in the Tubas Governorate and the northern Jordan Valley have no connection to the security concerns promoted by the occupation authorities. None of their objectives reflect any real security concerns, but rather come within the context of a broader project related to military training and field preparation for future political and settlement steps, foremost among them the annexation of the northern Jordan Valley .
According to the report: This military operation was accompanied by a campaign of raids and incursions into citizens’ homes, some of which were converted into military barracks.
According to the Israeli newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth, three brigades of the occupation army participated in the operation: “Menashe”, “Shomron”, and “Commandos”, as they began by closing the main roads in the governorate to strengthen control over the area, imposing a comprehensive curfew on the city of Tubas and the neighboring towns, and closing all entrances with earth mounds and military barriers, which turned the Tubas governorate into an “open military zone”, instead of being a civilian society.
According to the Israeli newspaper Haaretz, the occupation army has begun implementing a new section of an apartheid wall deep in the northern Jordan Valley, in a move described by citizens and human rights activists as the most dangerous in years, as it turns dozens of communities into besieged areas and cuts them off from large areas of agricultural and pastoral lands.
According to the same newspaper, the current section extends for 22 kilometers and is up to 50 meters wide, and is located more than 12 kilometers west of the Jordanian border. The ongoing work includes the bulldozing of residential and agricultural facilities, tents, warehouses, and sections of water networks, within what is known as the military project “Crimson Thread”.
In recent days, the occupation authorities have notified a number of families in the areas of Ain Shibli and Khirbet Atouf of immediate demolition orders within a week, in preparation for paving the new route of the wall. The residents fear that their villages will turn into isolated islands, especially Khirbet Yarza, which is inhabited by about 70 people who depend on raising livestock in an area estimated at 400 dunams that will be completely surrounded.
Military documents indicate that the wall will be used as a patrol route accompanied by earthen berms and deep trenches, while a security fence is being constructed in several sections.
In this regard, Dror Etkes, an expert on settlement affairs from the Kerem Navot Association, which specializes in monitoring Israeli measures to control Palestinian land, estimates that the current phase of the “Crimson Thread” project will lead to the separation of farmers and landowners in the towns of Tammun, Tubas, Tayasir and Aqaba from vast areas of their land, amounting to about 45,000 dunams, which will be located between Alon Street and the new wall.
The targeted area, located between the northern Jordan Valley and the Hamra checkpoint, includes seven existing settlements, in addition to 16 pastoral outposts in the form of farms.
In addition, a news report published last week by the Hebrew website “Ynet” revealed that Israeli officials from the Shomron Regional Council, headed by the extreme right-wing Likud member Yossi Dagan, and the municipality of the settlement of Rosh HaAyin, launched a joint initiative to establish a new colonial city in the West Bank, under the name “East Rosh HaAyin,” on government lands in the northern West Bank highlands, and to accommodate more than 130,000 settlers.
Officials see the project as an extension of the “One Million in Samaria” vision, which aims to increase the number of settlers to one million and strengthen the colonial presence by 2050.
Supporters of the project assert that the goal of establishing the city is not only demographic, but primarily strategic and security-related. They also promote it as forming a vital “security belt” for central Israel to protect areas such as Rosh HaAyin from future threats .
The announcement of the proposed city came during a visit by Dagan and Sagi to the “Lerner” farm, which is located between the settlements of “Beduel,” “Leish M,” “Bruchin,” and “Eli Zahav,” on the lands of the Qalqilya and Salfit governorates.
The Israeli news site Ynet reported that teams from the Shomron Regional Council and the Rosh HaAyin Municipality have been working for the past two months on a plan to link the eastern neighborhoods of Rosh HaAyin with the Leshem settlement to form a connected urban and agricultural bloc. The initiators called on the government to officially approve the project .
On another note, the Israeli newspaper Haaretz published last week an exciting investigation entitled “For the sake of Judea: The Israeli army becomes a cog in the settlers’ machine,” which sheds light on a project on the internet: “WhatsApp”, “Telegram”, “Instagram” pages, and “YouTube”, in which the occupation army calls on soldiers and the public to visit settlement outposts and archaeological sites in the West Bank, including in areas (A) and (B).
The project operates through organized groups run by the occupation army. The content is provided by officers, soldiers, guides, civilian archaeologists, and political figures from the settlements. It was established by a soldier who served in the “Judea” Brigade and continues to lead it even while on reserve duty, with the full support of his senior commanders.
The following is a summary of the weekly violations:
Jerusalem:
Settlers established a new outpost east of the town of Mikhmas, erected mobile homes, and began infrastructure work on lands east of the town, while others attacked shepherds in the pastures, forcing them to leave the place under threat of weapons, and threatening them not to return again.
Settlers also stormed the Bedouin community of Jaba’ (9 kilometers) northeast of Jerusalem, before young men confronted them and prevented them from advancing further into the area.
Groups of settlers stormed the Bedouin community of Al-Ara’ara, northeast of Jerusalem, under the protection of the occupation forces.
The occupation municipality in Jerusalem also forced citizen Muhammad Karshan to demolish his house himself, under the pretext of lack of a permit, in the Al-Salam suburb, east of Jerusalem.
Al-Khalil:
Six citizens, including a pregnant woman, were injured and bruised in an attack by settlers on citizens’ homes in the Al-Hawawar area of Halhul town.
In Masafer Yatta, settlers smashed a citizen’s vehicle and prevented farmers from entering their lands.
Meanwhile, others detained a number of citizens as they tried to reach and cultivate their lands in the village of Al-Burj, south of Hebron.
In the town of Tarqumiya, settlers prevented farmers from accessing their lands and fired sound and gas bombs at them, causing dozens of people to suffer from suffocation due to inhaling the gas.
Settlers also uprooted 850 olive and grape trees from the lands of Khirbet Khallat al-Homs, southeast of Yatta, and destroyed the contents of an agricultural room and damaged barbed wire.
In the Ashkara area, southeast of Yatta, armed settlers raided the lands and fields of the local people and plowed them, in preparation for planting and seizing them.
Meanwhile, the occupation forces demolished commercial facilities on the road linking the towns of Al-Ramadin and Al-Dhahiriya. The occupation army also prevented the residents of Wadi Ajheish near Susya in Masafer Yatta from plowing their lands and forced them to leave the place.
In the Abu Shaban area, east of Yatta, the occupation authorities notified the demolition of the Khilat Amira school, which consists of eight “caravans” where 54 students study from kindergarten to the fourth grade. This notification is the second, after the school was given a notice to stop work last year.
Bethlehem:
Ten citizens were injured in an attack by settlers on the village of Khala’il al-Luz, after they infiltrated the village and tried to burn down a house belonging to the Salahat family, resulting in one person being shot in the thigh with live ammunition and three others suffering bruises as a result of being beaten. Meanwhile, others began plowing and planting grains on land in the aforementioned village, in an attempt to seize it.
In the village of Al-Walaja, the occupation forces demolished two residential apartments belonging to the brothers Qassam and Rabhi Khaled Maali, bulldozed and destroyed the main street, and demolished a retaining wall. The occupation forces also prevented the electricity company from installing electricity poles in the village of Kisan, which hinders the improvement of electricity services and the expansion of the power network in the area.
The occupation forces issued a notice to remove olive trees that are more than 30 years old along the main street in the town of Tuqu’, from the western entrance to the Al-Halqum area, and Marah Rabah to the south, along a length of about one kilometer, in an attempt to seize the land for colonial purposes.
Ramallah
Settlers again attacked water facilities in the Ain Samia area east of Ramallah, targeting water well number “6”, which led to a complete halt in pumping from the well, which is a major source of water for Palestinian communities east of Ramallah.
In the town of Sinjil, settlers plowed lands owned by the town’s residents in the “Al-Ma’arashiya” plain area to the north, and began plowing them, indicating their intention to seize them, after the occupation authorities declared them military zones, and they are only 200 meters away from the citizens’ homes.
The occupation forces also uprooted olive trees in the village of Kafr Malik in the Al-Manatir area, and about 100 ancient olive trees from the lands of the village of Al-Janiya, while settlers set up a caravan in the town of Sinjil, north of the town, in the Batn Al-Halawa area, and others stormed the village of Al-Mughayir, and roamed among the homes of the citizens.
In the town of Atara, settlers set fire to agricultural lands surrounding an outpost they had recently established on the town’s lands, while others kidnapped the young man Oweis Hamam Al-Lou (18 years old) from the village of Beitillu, and severely beat him.
Nablus
Settlers stormed the archaeological site in the town of Sebastia under heavy protection from occupation soldiers.
In the village of Rujeib, settlers attacked a young man while he was on Mount Rujeib, and others attacked the plain of the town of Beit Furik, and detained a number of citizens.
In the Masoudia area, settlers attacked citizens’ property, vandalized the fence surrounding land belonging to citizen Ahmed Salah Hamad, cut off the irrigation water supply to the land, and stole the water meter. Others vandalized an agricultural tractor in the village of Burqa, tried to set fire to a vehicle, and wrote racist slogans on the walls of a house.
Qalqilya
The occupation forces demolished a barn used as a cattle farm in the village of Jinsafut, east of Qalqilya, with an estimated area of no less than three dunams. Others attacked a vehicle near the entrance to the village of Amatin and pelted it with stones, causing material damage to it.
Salfit
Settlers set fire to parts of the Al-Falah Mosque in the Abu Zain area, north of the town of Bedia, and wrote racist slogans on the walls of a house.
In Wadi Qana, settlers cut down olive and citrus trees belonging to farmer Abdul Razzaq Khaled Mansour, while others attacked citizens’ vehicles in the town of Yasouf, and smashed 4 vehicles.
In the town of Yasuf, the occupation authorities delivered four notices to stop work and construction on two houses, a water well, and an agricultural road in the area.
The Jordan Valley
The occupation forces forced the families of citizens Suleiman Khaled Kaabneh and Khaled Suleiman Kaabneh from the eastern Balqa region north of Jericho to leave the area, knowing that these two families had been displaced from the Furush Beit Dajan area southeast of Nablus on October 8, and now they are being displaced again.
In the Ein al-Duyuk gathering in Jericho, four foreign solidarity activists were injured in an attack carried out by settlers, after they infiltrated the house where they were staying and assaulted them, stealing the contents of the house, passports and mobile phones belonging to the solidarity activists.
In Farsiya, settlers attacked agricultural lands, damaged water networks intended for irrigated agriculture on dozens of acres in the area, and stole an agricultural tractor, moving it to the outpost established near Mount Qarantal, west of the city.
The occupation forces also notified five families to remove residential and agricultural structures in the village of Atouf, east of Tammoun, within a maximum period of seven days.
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S.K.
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