Israel establishes more settlement roads in occupied Al-Quds

The Israeli occupation has intensified setting up settlement roads to link the settlements built in occupied Al-Quds to those built in its vicinity. The aim is to create new facts on the ground, separate Al-Quds from its Palestinian environment and change its Arab identity and character.

In its weekly report published 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 establish several settlement roads. One of these roads extends from the town of Jabal Al-Mukaber to the neighborhood of Ein Al-Louzeh in the town of Silwan, south of Al-Aqsa Mosque, and then to the center of the occupied city of Al-Quds. This road will facilitate the settlers’ raids on the mosque. Another road will be established to connect between the settlements built in the north, west and center of Al-Quds. The occupation also plan to establish a road that extends from a settlement in the far north of Al-Quds to its south.

According to the report, the occupation has also announced a plan to build 5250 new settlement units on an area of 840 dunums in the west of Al-Quds. It forced two Palestinian families to demolish their own houses in the town of Baher and delivered notifications about demolishing dozens of commercial facilities in Wadi Al-Joz neighborhood.

 Moreover, the report said that the occupation continued with implementing its settlement expansion plan in the West Bank . It seized 48,700 dunums in Bethlehem and in the villages of Kisan, Taqou’, Al-Rashaydeh and Janata. The occupation also razed 250 dunums of land in the town of Trqoumia in Al-Khalil in order to expand a settlement already built there.

The report went on to say that the Israeli settlers stormed into the neighborhood of Tal Al-Ramida in Al-Khalil and burned several Palestinian houses. The settlers also razed swathes of Palestinian land in the towns of Jourish, Majdal Bani Fadel and Aqraba in the south of Nablus and uprooted more than 200 olive and grape saplings in the towns of Bruqin, Yasouf and  Kafr Al-Deek in Salfit.

 Hamda Mustafa