Israel’s attempts to judaize occupied Al-Quds continue
The Israeli occupation authorities, over the past week, seized thousands of dunums in occupied Al-Quds to serve their settlement expansion scheme that aims at completely judaizing the Palestinian Arab city of Al-Quds.
The Palestinian Liberation Organization’s (PLO) National Bureau for Defending the Land and Resisting Settlements said in its weekly report on Saturday that the occupation authorities seized 15 dunums along several areas in Al-Quds and handed them over to the Israeli settlers to start digging tunnels and build new settlement units.
According to the report, the occupation announced a plan to expand the settlement road extending from the occupied Palestinian lands of 1948 to the old city in the heart of Al-Quds in order to bring more settlers to the city.
The report pointed out that the occupation has established a new 1300-meter-long tunnel under the western fence of Al-Aqsa Mosque with a depth of 20 meters which endangers the fence and to the houses in the old city.
Moreover, the occupation forces plan to demolish houses in several neighborhoods in the towns of Silwan and Al-Issawieh and in the village of Abu Al-Nawwar in occupied Al-Quds, the report went on to say.
It added that the occupation authorities keep trying to change the historical features of the Al-Ibrahimi Mosque in the West Bank city of Al-Khalil and they continue to implement a Judaization project in the mosque’s courtyards with the aim of facilitating the settlers’ raids.
The occupation authorities also announced a plan to build 20 new settlement units to expand a settlement already built in Halhoul town, north of Al-Khalil, the report said, adding that the occupation forces demolished a mosque in Khillet Taha area, south of Al-Khalil, and several agricultural facilities in the town of Tarqumia, west of Al-Khalil.
The report clarified that the occupation forces razed agricultural lands in Al-Walja village, west of Bethlehem, demolished two houses in Nahaleen town, southwest of the city and 10 houses in the east of Ramallah.
The settlers, the report added, seized 150 dunums in Mofieh plain in the northern Jordan Valley and stormed into the neighborhood of Tal Al-Rameeda in the center of Al-Khalil and the towns of Baraqa, Deir Sharaf, Hawara and Madma in Nablus where they attacked the Palestinians and their property.
The settlers also uprooted 110 olive trees in a number of towns in Salfit and Ramallah and prevented the farmers from reaching their agricultural lands in Sanjel town, north of Ramallah, the report pointed out.
Hamda Mustafa