Israel’s bids to judaize Al-Quds continue unabated

The Israeli occupation continues to build new settlement units in occupied Al-Quds to tighten the siege on the Palestinians and prevent them from building homes on their lands, with the aim of displacing them and residing Isareli settlers instead. This aggressive policy is part of the Israeli occupation’s attempt to change the demographic and geographic status of Al-Quds in preparation for judaizing it.

In its weekly report on Saturday, the Palestinian Liberation Organization’s (PLO) National Bureau for Defending the Land and Resisting Settlements said that the occupation authorities have announced a plan to expand a settlement northeast of Al-Quds on an area of 700 dunums. The report pointed out that the occupation has previously seized 1170 dunums from the same area, which means that the new plan will confiscate the only area on which the Palestinians in Al-Quds can build houses.

According to the report, the Isareli occupation’s digging works to establish tunnels under the neighborhoods of old Al-Quds city have caused cracks in the city’s main street that may lead to its collapse.

Moreover, the report said, the occupation has also escalated its Judaization war in all parts of the West Bank by razing swathes of lands, house demolition acts, attacking the Palestinians’ agricultural lands and vandalizing their crops and destroying water networks in a bid to tighten the noose on the Palestinians and forcing them to leave their areas.

The report added that the Israeli settlers, under the protection of the occupation forces, stormed into several neighborhoods in Al-Quds as well as in the West Bank cities of Al-Khalil, Bethlehem, Ramallah, Nablus and the northern Jordan Valley. The settlers attacked the Palestinians and their property and razed wide areas of land north of Nablus.

Hamda Mustafa