JERUSALEM (VINnews) — A secret and detailed contingency plan prepared by settlement movements in Judea and Samaria, led by the Farm Association (Igud HaHavot) and the “Habayta – Returning to the Homeland” Forum, which has reportedly reached the highest levels of government, outlines a dramatic transformation of the region. The stated goal is to nullify the Oslo Accords, restore governance, and create continuous Jewish territorial contiguity.

Behind the initiative are bereaved parents from Judea and Samaria who recently established the forum. Its declared objective is to promote Jewish settlement in open areas throughout the region, including Areas A and B, which are currently administered by the Palestinian Authority.

The forum has completed an extensive mapping operation that lasted many months. Its purpose is to identify and occupy 100 different locations deep inside Area A, which since the Oslo Accords has been under full Palestinian Authority civil and security control.

According to the plan, which has already been presented to several government ministers and to members of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s inner circle, the selected sites were chosen deliberately. The forum says these are dominant, strategically important positions. It notes that most of the sites are lands that were previously declared state lands but were transferred to Palestinian Authority responsibility under the Oslo Accords.

Powerful political and practical forces are said to be supporting the initiative behind the scenes. One of the leading advocates of the plan is Bezalel Smotrich, Israel’s Finance Minister and a minister within the Defense Ministry.

The figures leading the project on the ground are individuals with extensive experience establishing outposts and settlement points:

• Eliav Libby, one of the founders of the agricultural farm movement in the West Bank, whose son David was killed in fighting in Gaza.
• Yehoshua Sherman, whose son Yehuda was killed in a terrorist attack near the “Shuva Yisrael” farm in Samaria.

Members of the “Habayta” Forum explain that the plan emerged directly from lessons learned from the failures surrounding the Gaza Strip. They argue that only a permanent civilian presence at key strategic locations and in open areas can prevent a scenario involving a large-scale infiltration or rocket fire toward central Israeli cities and communities along the security barrier, similar to what occurred during the October 7 attack.

The forum says that the professional mapping work has been completed and that it hopes political approval for implementing the plan and populating the designated sites with settlers will be granted when the appropriate moment arrives.

Sources involved in the initiative told the website Hitnachalut Achshav (“Settlement Now”):

“We are not waiting for a disaster to happen in Judea and Samaria as well. The mapping was carried out in the most professional manner possible. On the day the order is given, these points will be populated by settlers. The goal is to create territorial continuity that will restrict the ability of terrorists to operate freely from areas controlled by the Palestinian Authority. This is not a long and exhausting legislative process. It is a single cabinet decision that could change Israel’s security reality for many years to come.”