Israeli occupation announces a plan to establish 2430 settlement units in the vicinity of Al-Quds

Occupied Al-Quds – The Israeli occupation intends to build 2430 settlement units in the vicinity of occupied Al-Quds with the aim of minimizing the Palestinian presence in the city, isolating its neighborhood from each others, and isolating the city from its Palestinian environment.

In its weekly report published on Saturday, the Palestinian Liberation Organization’s (PLO) National Bureau for Defending the Land and Resisting Settlements clarified that the Israeli settlement expansion project includes expanding two settlements already built on the lands of the towns of Beit Eksa, Beit Hanina and Hazma north of Al-Quds. The report pointed out that the occupation authorities have seized 20 dunums of the land of Jabal Al-Mukaber, south of the city to establish 100 settlement units.

The report also said that over the past week, the occupation forces demolished Ras al-Teen school in Al-Qaboun village and the school of Ein Samiya village, east of Ramallah. They also razed agricultural lands and demolished several houses in the town of Beit Sira, west of Ramallah, as well as an industrial facility in the village of Sarta, west of Salfit and razed lands in Qasra village, south of Nablus, to expand two already built settlements.

The report went on to say that Israeli settlers stormed Wadi Al-Rababa neighborhood and seized lands in Wadi Hilweh neighborhood in the town of Silwan, south of Al-Aqsa Mosque, and in the village of Burin, south of Nablus. The settlers also attacked the Palestinians and their property and destroyed the water networks in several areas in the West Bank. They demolished a house in Masafer Yatta area, south of Al-Khalil city (Hebron), cut off the main road linking Jenin, Tulkarem, and the town of Ya`bad and its villages, and prevented the Palestinians from passing through this road. The settlers also stormed into an archeological site in Ariha (Jericho) and into the old town in Al-Khalil and the villages of Al-Sawiya, Qasra and Kherbet Tana, south of Nablus

Hamda Mustafa