Hyderabad, March 23 -- Amid the ongoing Israeli aggression on the Gaza Strip, Israel on Friday, March 22, seized 800 hectares (1,977 acres) of land in the northern Jordan Valley in the occupied West Bank, marking the "largest" seizure since 1993's Oslo Accords.

Israel's finance minister Bezalel Smotrich declared the seized land in the northern Jordan Valley "state land" to expand Jewish settlements in the West Bank, AFP reported.

In a statement, the head of the Palestinian Wall and Settlement Resistance Authority said, "The year 2024 witnessed the largest Israeli seizure of West Bank lands under the name of state lands, in many years, amounting to 3 decades."

"The areas seized by the Israel under this name amounted to a total of 1064 h...