Israel establishes more settlement units, roads in Al-Quds to serve its Juadaization scheme

The Israeli occupation settlement expansion plan in occupied Al-Quds continues with the aim of judaizing the city. Most Recently the occupation announced a plan to establish hundreds of settlement units and roads in the heart of Al-Quds city and its vicinity to implement its colonialist annexation schemes.  

The Palestinian Liberation Organization’s (PLO) National Bureau for Defending the Land and Resisting Settlements, said in its report published on Saturday that the occupation, last week, announced five settlement expansion plans to be implemented in Al-Quds. The first includes building 730 settlement units to expand a settlement built on the land of Hanina town, north of Akl-Quds. The second includes building 850 settlement units on 17 dunums in Yafa, while the third provides for establishing 210 settlement units to expand a settlement built on the land of Abu Ghoush village, northeast of occupied Al-Quds.

 The fourth and fifth plans seek establishing a settlement in the western side of Jabal Al-Zaitoun area which overlooks Al-Aqsa Mosque and another settlement on an area of 9 dunums in Al-Issaweyeh town, the report added.

According to the report, the occupation plans to establish new settlement roads linking the settlements built south of Al-Quds to those built in the south of the West Bank. The occupation also announced a plan to expand settlement roads at the entrance of Al-Quds that threaten with seizing wide area of agricultural land and isolating the towns and villages from each other.

These roads are considered a basis for implementing the colonial annexation scheme, through which the occupation wants to annex about 30 percent of the West Bank lands, the report clarified.

The report said that the occupation forces demolished three houses in the town of Beit Hanina and Shu’fat Camp in Al-Quds and sent notification for demolishing a house in the Palestinian town of Abu Al-Nawwar in Al-Quds.

The Israeli settlers, the report added, continued to attack Palestinian cities and towns in the West Bank under the protection of the Israeli occupation forces. The settlers stormed into the towns of Kafr Al-Deek in Salfit, Yatta in Al-Khalil and Duma in Nablus, and uprooted 570 olive and almond trees.

Many settlers also attacked Palestinian properties and houses and seized lands in the towns of Beyaret Mas’oud in Tubas, Bateer in Bethlehem and Qaryut in Nablus to establish three new settlement outposts, the report pointed out.  

Hamda Mustafa