International law prohibits an occupying power from converting occupied land into permanent military terrain because occupation is considered a temporary situation, not a transfer of sovereignty. Permanent alterations are forbidden, as they create a fait accompli and violate the principle that the occupying power has only provisional control. Measures must avoid permanent, far-reaching changes and should be limited to what is necessary for security or the orderly government of the territory.
Therefore, taking permanent possession of any part of Palestinian land in the West Bank is considered an illegal conversion of that land, while refusing distinction of civilian use and military objectives, thus as an act of de jure annexation of that part of land.
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