{"id":17073,"date":"2025-05-07T07:37:23","date_gmt":"2025-05-07T07:37:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.watanserb.com\/en\/?p=17073"},"modified":"2025-05-07T07:41:00","modified_gmt":"2025-05-07T07:41:00","slug":"israels-cursed-roads-new-infrastructure-plan-in-west-bank-accelerates-silent-annexation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.watanserb.com\/en\/2025\/05\/07\/israels-cursed-roads-new-infrastructure-plan-in-west-bank-accelerates-silent-annexation\/","title":{"rendered":"Israel\u2019s \u201cCursed Roads\u201d: New Infrastructure Plan in West Bank Accelerates Silent Annexation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>Watan-<\/em><\/strong>In a highly dangerous development, Israel is rapidly advancing a massive infrastructure plan in the West Bank\u2014presented as road development but designed to deepen settler control and eliminate the Palestinian dream of an independent state.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-start=\"817\" data-end=\"1059\">The plan, recently revealed, involves constructing hundreds of kilometers of new roads that connect illegal settlements to Israeli cities within the 1948 borders. Observers have described it as the \u201cofficial burial\u201d of the two-state solution.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-start=\"1061\" data-end=\"1493\">What makes this project particularly dangerous is its transformation of Palestinian cities and villages into isolated \u201cislands,\u201d severing geographic continuity and preventing social and urban cohesion among Palestinian communities. This concern was raised by the Office for Land Defense and Settlement Resistance, which warned that the plan creates a near-irreversible reality and renders opposition to annexation almost impossible.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"rtl\" lang=\"ar\">\ud83d\udd34\u0627\u0644\u0643\u0634\u0641 \u0639\u0646 \u0645\u062e\u0637\u0637 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/%D8%A5%D8%B3%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%A6%D9%8A%D9%84?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#\u0625\u0633\u0631\u0627\u0626\u064a\u0644<\/a> \u0627\u0644\u062c\u0647\u0646\u0645\u064a \u0644\u0644\u062a\u0648\u0633\u0639 \u0641\u064a \u0627\u0633\u062a\u0647\u062f\u0627\u0641 \u0627\u0644\u0623\u0631\u0627\u0636\u064a \u0627\u0644\u0641\u0644\u0633\u0637\u064a\u0646\u064a \u0648\u062a\u0642\u0648\u064a\u0636 \u062d\u0642\u0647\u0645 \u0641\u064a \u0623\u0646 \u062a\u0643\u0648\u0646 \u0644\u0647\u0645 \u062f\u0648\u0644\u0629 \u0645\u0633\u062a\u0642\u0628\u0644\u0629\ud83d\udc47 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/pE1ccKMcEm\">pic.twitter.com\/pE1ccKMcEm<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 \u0648\u0637\u0646. \u064a\u063a\u0631\u062f \u062e\u0627\u0631\u062c \u0627\u0644\u0633\u0631\u0628 (@watanserb_news) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/watanserb_news\/status\/1919440360645747113?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 5, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-start=\"1495\" data-end=\"1785\">Israel\u2019s government has allocated over 3.1 billion shekels for the project, reflecting its serious political intent. With the number of settlers in the<a href=\"https:\/\/www.watanserb.com\/en\/2025\/03\/30\/israel-approves-major-settlement-road-plan-to-divide-west-bank\/\"> West Bank<\/a> currently estimated at around 770,000, Israel aims to cement the presence of 1 million settlers through these new road networks.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-start=\"1787\" data-end=\"2089\">These roads are not mere infrastructure\u2014they are instruments of annexation and control, meticulously designed to impose Israeli sovereignty and fragment Palestinian geography. While the project isn\u2019t new, its acceleration is enabled by international silence and global distraction with other conflicts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-start=\"2091\" data-end=\"2280\">Palestinians are now asking: Who will stop Israel? When will the world act against this \u201csilent<a href=\"https:\/\/www.watanserb.com\/en\/2025\/03\/24\/israel-approves-dangerous-plan-to-annex-west-bank-settlements-sparking-outrage\/\"> annexation<\/a>\u201d? Activists call the network the \u201ccursed roads\u201d leading to a reality of apartheid.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-start=\"2282\" data-end=\"2397\">With every new road, another door to a Palestinian state closes, and the path to permanent occupation grows longer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Watan-In a highly dangerous development, Israel is rapidly advancing a massive infrastructure plan in the West Bank\u2014presented as road development but designed to deepen settler control and eliminate the Palestinian dream of an independent state. 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