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By: Madeeha Araj,
Within its long-term Judaization projects of the Jerusalem in general and the Old City of Jerusalem in particular, following the US administration’s decision to recognize Jerusalem as the capital of the Israeli occupation State and move the US Embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, the so-called Israeli municipality in Jerusalem accelerates it steps and plans to establish a park in the Mount of Olives to link the two Jews settlement in the Al-Toor neighborhood in the city.
The aforementioned park will be located on the western slopes of Mount Olives, between the settlement neighborhood of Beit Urrut “the former Armenian patriarch’s house” located in the Sawanah neighborhood on the left side of the main road leading to Al-Toor and the new Beit Hochin settlement opposite the Al-Farsi Mosque. It is expected to be named as Ozih or Imtsa’ Park. The Israeli government and the municipality of the occupation’s goal behind this move is to seize private Palestinian land, where the occupation municipality and the so-called “Authority for Developing Jerusalem,” intends to expand the park thus presented it to the “District Planning committee”.
The above mentioned Committee approved another plan for the development of the city, which includes the establishment of a visitors’ center in the Jewish cemetery in the Mount of Olives, near the Ma’aleh Zaytim settlement, as part of a large plan the Elad settlement in the second part of Jabal Al-Mukaber, moreover, planning for a restaurant is underway, while the Jerusalem Development Authority is constructing a bridge of ropes that extends from the restaurant and ends at Mount Zion.
The Jerusalem Development Company supervises the Judaization of the “Cotton Cave” or the so-called “Tsadikhu” located on Sultan Suleiman St, under the Old City of Jerusalem between the Damascus and Sahira Gates through 2 tenders. The first one is NIS 12,000,000 for cave, and the second NIS 5,000,000 for the development of sound and light shows.
Furthermore, the Israeli occupation authorities also continued their attacks on Palestinian institutions in the occupied Jerusalem. The Minister of Internal Security at the occupation government issued decisions to close and extend the closure of a number of Palestinian institutions in occupied Jerusalem, including the Chamber of Commerce, the Supreme Council for Tourism, the Palestinian Center for Studies, Palestinian Detainees Center, and the Social and Statistics Studies Office.
In its weekly session, the Israeli government approved the legitimization of the Gilad outpost, in retaliation against the Palestinians and in response to the Nablus operation that resulted in the killing of the settler Raziel Shiva in a shooting operation on January 9th. Israeli PM Netanyahu announced the granting of permits to the settlement outpost that was established on private Palestinian land of the Jeit and Farata villages.
The National Bureau for Defending Land and Resisting Settlements condemned the decision of the Israeli government headed by Netanyahu to legitimize the Gilad outpost, and to allocate budgets needed to expand it and deepen settlement activity there. The Bureau called on the international community and the UNs to act immediately and curb the Israeli policies of breaching the international law and the Geneva Conventions. Adding the colonial settlement decision is not only to legislate the outposts that have been built on the private property of the Palestinian people, but also to release the settlers and grant them an explicit permits to begin taking full control of Palestinian land in the West Bank.
In the ongoing crimes committed by the Israeli occupation forces and Israeli settlers, they demolished the Abu Al-Nawar Bedouin School east of the occupied Jerusalem. It is not the first time that they committed such a crime, and deprived children of their right to education. It is a maneuver to displace the Abu Al-Nawar area in order to expand the settlement according to a plan known as :E1.
Moreover, settlers from the Yitzhar settlement attacked a house belonging to Rizk Ziadeh in the Maamda village, south of Nablus, and the kidnapping of 2 children, Hussam, 8, and Taha, 10, and attempted to take them to the settlement. However, scores of villagers gathered and pursued the settlers in the mountains, forcing them to leave the children.
Furthermore, Knesset Member, Yehuda Glick, who usually leads incursions of settlers to the Al-Aqsa Mosque, said that the Israeli police in Jerusalem and the Shin-Bet security service encouraged the settlers to invade the mosque. Glick said that Shin-Bet chief, Avi Dichter, is the first to encourage him to storm the Al-Aqsa Mosque, and told him to bring more settlers, and explicitly said, “We need more Jews in the Temple Mount.”Glick revealed that those who encourage him today to continue the storming of the Al-Aqsa Mosque is the commander of the Jerusalem area in the Israeli police, Yoram Helifi, who always says, “Bring more, we need more, why do you come in few numbers.
In a provocative measure, dozens of settlers, including Knesset members and Israeli officials, participated in the funeral of Rabbi Itamar Ben Gal in the Har Bracha settlement in the northern West Bank, along with Knesset Speaker, Yuli Adelstein and Deputy Minister of Occupation Army, Eli Ben Dahan. For his part, Agriculture Minister, Uri Ariel declared that the time of the Temple Mount has come, as it is time for the people of Israel to recognize the sanctity of the land, the sanctity of the Temple Mount, the construction of our temple.
A list of Assaults Documented by the National Bureau by Israeli Occupation and Settlers over the last week:
Jerusalem:
- Invading the Al-Isawiya town, in the occupied Jerusalem, and handing over new demolition orders to owners of a container and shops.
- Demolishing Jerusalemite Ali Tohma’s house in the Silwan town south of the Al-Aqsa Mosque after years of building it, as well as a house belonging to the Nuaimi’s family in south of the Al-Aqsa Mosque, under the pretext of being built without a license.
- Invading the Beit Hanina town and destroying a land belonging to Al-Shobaki family. Family member, Mazin Shobaki said their house was built long ago, adding the house was demolished 16 years ago, too.
Hebron:
- Attacking farmers in the Beit Umar town north of Hebron, threw stones, and abused and prevented them from accessing their land and threatened to kill them.
- Invading the Old City of Hebron.
- Seizing an agricultural tractor east of the town of Yatta, or the village of Yatta east of Yatta, and prevented the citizen Moh’d Jibril Makhamra from working in his land.
- Smashing glasses of 3 Palestinian vehicles in the Khirbet Sheikh Zakaria area, located in the center of Gush Etzion settlement that was built between Hebron and Bethlehem, and punctured their tires, and wrote anti-Arab slogans saying that they carried out this attack as a revenge.
Nablus:
- Setting up 4 mobile homes on the lands of Aqraba, Yatta and Qabalan towns at Jabal Sabih, north of Zaatara.
- Demolishing a house under construction in the Beit Dajan village, east of Nablus, belongs to citizenn, Ziad Hussein Rajeh.
- Injuring a number of Palestinians as settlers targeted their vehicles near Hawara checkpoint.
- Attacking homes in Burin village, south of Nablus, a group of armed settlers from Yitzhar settlement broke into citizen, Rizk Ziadeh’s house, and abducted 2 children, Hossam, 8, and Taha, 10.
Ramallah:
Confiscating about 3,000 donums from the villages to the north of the city of Ramallah to open new settlement roads, and expand Halmish settlement that was built on 330 donums on Um Safa lands, which has been recently announced as a natural reserve covering an area of 378 donums in the north and 459 donums in the south. Construction and expansion of the settlement are increasing day by day until a new settlement outpost was established under the name “Yad Achai” affiliated to the Helmish settlement.
Salfeet:
- Preventing citizens from entering their land behind the wall to plough the land, pruning the trees and cleaning it.
Jenin:
- Demolishing 0a room and sheep-barks, scores of citizens suffocated during the invasion of the Borqin town west of Jenin, injuring citizen, Nour-Din Rawhi Awad, 49, and his wife after Israeli police dogs attacked them in the Al-Kefir village, southeast of Jenin.
Jordan Valley:
- Confiscating tents, barks, plastic ceilings, belonging to Suleiman Arheil Ka’bneh, from Khirbet Um-Jamal.
- Destroying water-lines that water scores of donums in the Sakout area in the northern Jordan Valley, and destroying a 1.5 km water-line belonging to a Palestinian farmer.
- Completely destroying 8 donums planted with chickpeas due to Israeli military training in the Shqq area, north of the valleys.
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