Applied Research Institute (ARIJ) revealed that the Israeli occupation authorities approved a new settlement plan to establish a settlement neighborhood belonging to the Tel Manashe settlement on Palestinian lands in the towns of Ya'bad and Anin in Jenin.

The new plan is to seize 87 dunams to build 107 new settlement units in the new neighborhood in Basin No. 2 of Ya’bad lands and Basin No. 6 of the lands of Anin village in the area known as Khallet Salah.

The new settlement plan includes changing the classification of the targeted Palestinian lands from an open public area and agricultural land to a first and second-class residential area according to the Israeli classification, in addition to open areas and an internal road to connect them with the surrounding settlements.

ARIJ added that the new settlement plan is geographically linked to a previous settlement plan that was approved by the Israeli occupation authorities in February 2019 to build 79 settlement units in the settlement on an area of ​​91 dunums of Palestinian land that belongs to the lands of Yabad town.

The Palestinians who live in the Palestinian communities adjacent to the Israeli settlements suffer from difficult living conditions in isolation from the Palestinian villages adjacent to them. The Israeli occupation authorities control their movement times and limit the materials they can enter through the military checkpoints. They also do not allow anyone from outside these villages to enter them on the pretext that they are not residents.