The Israeli cabinet approved land registration rules for Area C on Sunday to revive a title process that has been dormant since 1967.
Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich and Justice Minister Yariv Levin pushed the plan forward to ensure the state presence is felt on every acre of the land. Levin stated that the government is committed to anchoring its hold over every part of the territory.
A Policy of Increments
Area C covers roughly 60 per cent of the land and is home to at least 325,500 settlers. Over 300,000 Palestinians live there as well and they use the local soil for farming and grazing.
The new registration project necessitates that landowners display old papers that the families simply cannot find. Hagit Ofran of Peace Now detailed how the rules for proving ownership are made to be insurmountable.
She informed The Associated Press that Palestinians must give proof that will stay forever out of reach. Peace Now calculated that the map work could claim 83 per cent of Area C which would mean taking half of the West Bank.
The way the government works unmasks the intent of the plan. The Israeli government allocated 79 million dollars for the process through 2030.
To get the work done, the Netanyahu administration will fund 35 ministerial jobs and open new agencies to handle the archives. Large government offices like the ones mentioned need funding and years of labour to function.
The Assaults Beneath the Forms
The official offices are now taking over the pressure that used to happen on the hillsides. Settler attacks surged by 27 per cent in 2025.
The year saw 845 incidents that left 200 people wounded and four dead. Over 830 Palestinians were injured by settlers during the year and the data averages out to two people wounded every single day.
The highest monthly count of attacks in twenty years was recorded in October 2025. The data speaks of farmers beaten in their groves and families who lost their animals as their children watched checkpoints block every road. Keren Braier of Yesh Din noted that the registration process formalises the work that threats and force started.
Normalising What Cannot Be Reversed
The International Court of Justice gave an opinion in 2024 that found the policies are effectively taking over large parts of the land.
The International Crisis Group concluded that the slow process has gone so far that a formal claim of ownership would be a name for a state of affairs already set on the ground.
President Trump repeated that he does not want to see annexation but the quiet work in the cabinet room overrides the talk of global diplomacy.
Senator Omar al-Ayasrah of Jordan described the steps as a quickening force that will drive new waves of people across borders. Jordan fears the flow of refugees will move outside of the immediate area and put the safety of the whole region at risk.
Gradualism Comes at a Price
Small steps turn into results that no map can fix.
The defence world cautioned that the slow build of facts will hurt security in the area and the wide region. The plan also forces the army to use more troops to guard new land claims, increasing militarisation.
Mamdouh al-Natsheh is a shop owner in Hebron and he remarked that the city is being taken from its people through steps that cannot be undone.
Families who do not have old Ottoman papers will lose the fields their grandparents farmed. Each registration choice builds a state of affairs that is harder to oppose as time goes on.
The filing cabinet has become a tool to take land and the office-based method makes the process look normal to the world even if it risks a large security crisis. The cabinet members who voted for the rules are betting the world will accept small changes until the population is gone.
Families in Area C now see a file that has the power of an army command. The difference offers no comfort because the end consequence is the same. The government has picked a way to work that ensures the citizens will pay the price down the road.
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