Israeli occupation authorities have issued, Wednesday, two new tenders for the construction of a colonial neighborhood in the illegal colony of Adam (Givat Binyamin), built on stolen Palestinian land northeast of occupied Jerusalem.
In a statement Wednesday, the Jerusalem Governorate described the move as “a dangerous escalation in the policy of colonial expansion and land annexation,” warning that it aims to impose “new demographic and geographic realities” as part of the so-called “Greater Jerusalem” project.
The Israeli Ministry of Housing published two tenders: one for 342 colonial units across five compounds, and another for 14 detached homes designated for Israeli army reservists.
The project is based on a building scheme approved in January 2025 that seizes approximately 150 dunams of Palestinian land toward the Bedouin community of Jaba’.
The Governorate noted that this is part of a broader plan to connect Adam with the illegal outpost of Givat Gur Aryeh, established in February adjacent to Jaba’.
“This creates a continuous colonial belt designed to encircle Palestinian presence and accelerate forced displacement,” the statement said.
Last Sunday, Israeli authorities also published a separate tender to plan and build a new colonial compound in the illegal colony of Giv’on HaHadasha, northwest of Jerusalem—further tightening the ring around the occupied capital.
According to the Governorate, Israel has announced 5,667 colonial units in the West Bank and occupied Jerusalem since the start of 2025—“an unprecedented figure that exceeds the previous peak in 2018 by nearly 50%.”
In October alone, the Governorate documented 13 colonial plans based on daily monitoring of official announcements by the so-called Civil Administration and the Israeli municipality in Jerusalem, in coordination with the Orient House. These include five deposited plans covering 769 units on 19.861 dunams, and five approved plans totaling 5,129 new units.
On Tuesday, Israeli occupation authorities forced two Palestinian families in occupied Jerusalem to carry out self-demolitions—one of a family home in Silwan, the other of a livestock shelter in al-‘Isawiya.
On Monday morning, Israeli occupation authorities compelled a Palestinian to demolish his home in Isawiya town, northeast of Jerusalem.
While Israel continues to build and expand its illegal colonies, Palestinian communities and towns in occupied Jerusalem and various areas in the occupied West Bank continue to be denied the right to build homes and property under various allegations meant to prevent the expansion of Palestinian towns and neighborhoods.
All of Israel’s colonies in the occupied West Bank, including those in and around occupied East Jerusalem, are illegal under International Law, the Fourth Geneva Convention in addition to various United Nations and Security Council resolutions. They also constitute war crimes under International Law.
Article 33 of the Fourth Geneva Convention prohibits collective punishment and acts of terror against civilian populations.
Article 49 of the Fourth Geneva Convention states: “The Occupying Power shall not deport or transfer parts of its own civilian population into the territory it occupies.” It also prohibits the “individual or mass forcible transfers, as well as deportations of protected persons from occupied territory”.
Articles 53 and 147, prohibit the destruction of civilian property and classify pillage as a war crime.
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