The Israeli regime has launched a controversial digital property registration plan in the occupied West Bank, which the Palestinian Land Authority described as a “dangerous colonial occupation step that represents a direct assault on the historical and legal rights of the Palestinian people to their land and property.”

The Palestinian Jerusalem Governorate and the Colonization and Wall Resistance Commission (CRRC) have urged Palestinians in the West Bank not to engage with any Israeli “entities, committees, platforms, or procedures” regarding lands and property.

The online “Land Registry and Settlement of Rights” platform was reportedly launched on February 15, 2026, initiating the permanent acquisition and registration of approximately 58 percent of Area C, the part of the West Bank under full Israeli control.

Moayad Shaaban, head of the CRRC, said the move reveals “the occupation’s transition from traditional policies of field control to digital and administrative colonial engineering aimed at imposing permanent legal realities on the occupied Palestinian territory.”

In May 2025, the Israeli Security Cabinet launched a new aggressive land settlement process in the West Bank. In July 2025, the Israeli parliament approved a symbolic measure calling for annexation of the West Bank.

The Israeli regime aims to complete the full settlement of 15 percent of the West Bank by the end of 2030. Some 700,000 Israeli settlers already live in the West Bank and East Jerusalem.

Rights groups say settlement approvals and settler violence have accelerated since Israel launched its genocidal war on Gaza on October 7, 2023.

Source: www.aljazeera.com