The escalating settlement activity in the occupied West Bank and taking over Palestinian homes in Jerusalem after expelling their residents come as part of a colonial Israeli policy aimed at grabbing Palestinian lands, houses, and properties in order to impose a fait accompli to entrench the existence of an apartheid, extremist Jewish state that will not only pose a threat to the Palestinian people, but also to the whole region.

The weak positions taken by the Palestinian Authority, which criminalised and undermined the option of resistance in the West Bank as it continues security coordination with the Israeli occupation, coupled with the silence of Arab and Islamic establishments and international community over Israeli crimes and violations against the Palestinian people and their lands, resources and holy sites, have encouraged the Israeli occupation to continue perpetrating such atrocities and violations.     

This colonial policy will pose further challenges for all Palestinians that require us all to get involved in a unified, mass fight, using popular means of resistance, to face off such dangerous policy and foil it; the Palestinian people have to rule out the possibility of reaching political solutions with the Israeli occupation and pressure decision-makers in the region to put an end to all forms of normalisation with the Israeli occupation and instead reinforce the option of resistance and support the Palestinian people in their struggle for their rights and protect their interests.