Palestine- Israel exploits Coronavirus pandemic to expand settlement

West Bank – Palestine 12/05/2020

Salah al-Khawaja, a member of the National Committee for the Defense of the Palestinian Territories, confirmed Israel’s continued confiscation of Palestinian land in the West Bank, taking advantage of the world’s preoccupation with the Coronavirus pandemic to extend the expansion of its outposts, considering settlement as more dangerous than the Coronavirus to the Palestinian people, Israel recently approved the construction of thousands of new settlement units after confiscating 1,100 dunums of Palestinian land in the southern West Bank.