Israeli occupiers on Thursday reestablished the illegal Ganim settlement on Palestinian land east of Jenin in the northern occupied West Bank, 21 years after it was evacuated under Israel’s 2005 disengagement plan, the Palestinian news agency Wafa reported.
Israeli forces closed entrances and side roads along the main route from Haddad Roundabout to the Al-Jalama military checkpoint, saying the measures were intended to secure occupiers and their leaders taking part in the reestablishment of the illegal settlement, the agency said.
Participants included Yossi Dagan, head of the so-called northern West Bank settlements council, Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz, Communications Minister Shlomo Karhi and members of the Knesset, according to Wafa.
Tariq Ighbariya, head of the settlement file in Jenin province, said the occupiers’ return to Ganim represented “a dangerous development” that redraws Jenin’s geopolitical map and imposes new facts on the ground.
“The reestablishment of the settlement would cut the province apart, turn the area into something resembling a military barracks, increase attacks and confrontations, and threaten geographical continuity between Palestinian communities,” he said.
