The Environmental Quality Authority confirmed, in its second government report for 2025, that the occupation and its settlers had occupied a total of 155 areas for the Palestinian environment during the democratic period from April to June of this year, in various northern governorates.
In its report today, Wednesday, it stated that these attacks are being carried out on several targets, most notably the use of water well tactics, attacks on water distribution networks and sewage systems, the destruction of agricultural land, the smuggling of hazardous waste, and attacks on all natural resources, in addition to the establishment of colonial outposts and the financing of agricultural and grazing lands.
He explained that during the second half of this year, the occupation and its settlers destroyed 15 water wells in the governorates of Ramallah, Hebron, Bethlehem, Salfit and Al-Joutoubas, causing severe damage to water resources and contributing to the acceleration of desertification and the diversification of the natural resources.
The Environmental Quality Department also documented 13 attacks on water networks, including the planning of transmission lines in the areas of Nablus, Salfit, Qalqilya, and Jericho, and 6 attacks on sewage networks, highlighting the most prominent discouraging situations, along with the various ones in Qalqilya, Salfit, and Jerusalem, which increase the health risks and negatively impact the general environment.
Accordingly, the Environmental Quality Department documented 35 incidents of total or partial destruction of agricultural land, 45 attacks on roads and infrastructure, to demonstrate our commitment to olive, grape and citrus trees, in addition to systematic construction and bulldozing activities that targeted targets.
A related agreement, a detailed report of 16 targeted attacks on all, represented by the theft of sheep, the destruction of pens, preventing shepherds from accessing pastures, allowing shepherds to access lands, and damaging roads, which warns of a threat to the environmental left in the slope and pasture areas.
The report also presented 15 cases of solid waste and moisture, resulting from the occupation-controlled demolitions in Jerusalem, Salfit, Qalqilya, and Ramallah, and the smuggling of industrial waste from within the 1948 districts into the Palestinian territories, including construction waste, defective tires, and unused tires, which pose a direct threat to human health.
The report touched on 10 additional diverse actions carried out by the occupation forces and their settlers, including the seizure of rich and natural sites, the sabotage of electricity networks, the encroachment of large numbers of residents, the spilling of oil on roads, and the assault of public and private audiences in various areas of Bethlehem, Jericho, Lille, Salfit, Ramallah, and Nablus, as part of a systematic effort to empty the land of its inhabitants.
The environmental quality approach highlighted that various measures extended to include population centers and infrastructure, including electrical networks, health facilities, public parks, and historical and natural sites. These measures are part of a methodology targeting the Palestinian environment and its resources, and are implemented within a small, diverse framework.
The report stated that some of these crimes constitute crimes against humanity, while others constitute war crimes, given the provisions of Articles 7 and 8 of the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court, which relate to the widespread destruction of infrastructure and complete displacement, as occurred in the Jenin and Tulkarm refugee camps.
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155 environmental violations were committed by the occupation and settlers during the second quarter of 2025.