Israel implementing displacement plan in Al Boustan neighborhood in Al Quds
A few days ago, the Israeli occupation started implementing a plan to displace Palestinians from their houses in Al-Boustan neighborhood in the town of Silwan in occupied Al-Quds. More than 1500 Palestinians, residing in this neighborhood, will become homeless, while the United Nations’ response has been restricted to calls for stopping the Israeli house demolition and settlement building activities.
The Palestinian Liberation Organization’s (PLO) Bureau for Defending the Lands and Resisting Settlements said in its weekly report on Saturday that since last Tuesday, the occupation authorities have started this displacement plan by demolishing a Palestinian commercial facility in preparation for demolishing more than 13 houses in Al-Boustan neighborhood. The aim is to destroy all the neighborhood’s houses by the end of August.
According to the report, the occupation demolished a house in Al-Thawri neighborhood in Al-Quds as well as an agricultural facility in the neighborhood of Wadi Al-Hummus in Sour Baher town, a commercial facility in Wadi Hilwan, a house in Sweih neighborhood in Silwan, south of Al-Aqsa Mosque, and a house in Broqin town, west of Salfit city.
The occupation also delivered notifications about demolishing houses and agricultural facilities in the villages of Al-Walja and Kisan in Bethlehem, Al-Nabi Ilias in Qalqilya and Al-Sawya in Nablus, the report said.
It went on to say that the occupation razed swathes of Palestinian lands in the town of Beit Kahel, west of Al-Khalil city and closed with cement the water springs usually used by the Palestinians to irrigate their crops in Al- Baq’a area, east of Al-khalil.
The report also said that the Israeli settlers continued to attack Palestinian cities and towns in the West Bank under the protection of the occupation forces. They seized the Palestinians’ houses and agricultural lands, attacked their properties, cut off fruit trees and burned tens of dunums of agricultural land in several West Bank areas.
Hamda Mustafa