Violation: Establishing a new colonial outpost.

Location: Yasuf village / Salfit Governorate.

Date: April, 17^th 2025.

Affected party: The residents of Yasuf Village.

Details:

A group of settlers carried out to establishing a new outpost on the lands of Yasuf village, specifically in Khallet al Fola as it is known of its agricultural important according to farmers of the village.

According to direct field research, settlers sat up two agricultural tents between olive fields, at the same time of ravaging agricultural lands and began to open an agricultural road with 700 meters long, as links between Tafuh settlement from the east, in addition to linking another settlement located over past eight years and 400 meters away from a new colonial outpost.

Mr. Wael Nabil Abd Al Razzaq, the president of village council to researcher at LRC as follows:

“What is happing is an expansion of settlements to west of Ara’el settlement by establishing a new colonial outpost, as several outposts became closed off hundreds of agricultural dunams planted with olive trees, in addition to the existence of water spring near colonial activity.”

It’s worth mentioning that a new colonial outpost located on dunam. However, it threatens no less than 200 dunams surrounded by olive trees belonging to the farmers from Yasuf and Jama’een villages.

It is worth mentioning that Tafuh settlement located on Yasuf lands, overlooks to Za’tara junction, which separates the northern of west bank to southern, and the road that leads to central Jordan valley, the residents of this settlement are religious extremists of Ma’er Kahana, who was killed in United America states over past years. He called his followers to expel Palestinian Arabs from Palestine to out.

The settlement spans a total area of 233 dunams, which involves a military base followed to the occupation forces, in addition to residential area (settlement), it was established in 1982. As 4 new colonial outposts were established around Tafuh settlement. Contributing to whole seizure to agricultural lands there.

Yasuf village:

Yasuf village is located 16 km south of Nablus city. It is bordered by the towns of Huwara and Jama'in to the north, Marda village to the west, Yitma village to the east, and Iskaka village to the south. As of 2017, the village had a population of 2,093 residents. Its total area is 6,037 dunams, of which 330 dunams are designated as the village's built-up area.

The Israeli occupation has confiscated 814 dunams of Yasuf's land for the following purposes:

• Israeli settlements have seized 659 dunams of Yasuf's land, including 649 dunams for the Kfar Tapuah settlement, established in 1978 and housing 523 settlers, and 10 dunams for the “Rehelim-Shefut” settlement, established in 1991.
• Bypass Road No. 508 has taken over more than 155 dunams.

In addition, most of Yasuf's land falls under Area C, which is under full Israeli control, making it a target for almost daily violations. According to the Oslo Accords, Yasuf is divided into Area B, covering 1,427 dunams, and Area C, which constitutes the majority of the village’s total area at 4,609 dunams.

 مشروع: حماية الحقوق البيئية الفلسطينية في مناطق "ج" SPERAC IV - GFFO

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