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By: Madeeha Araj,
The Israeli occupation army has recently begun to publish new military orders and decisions that facilitate settlement operations on Palestinian land, and it complicates efforts to confront them as the new military orders enable settlers to deploy in the West Bank and prevent advertisement on that in the Arab media. Deputy Minister of the Israeli Army, Eli Ben Dahan is looking for a new order that prevent any announcement about settlement projects in the Arab newspapers. Thus, doing so, an effective tool would be broken-down a room the hands of the Palestinians, added Dahan.
Within the context, it was also revealed that the house of the former Israeli military prosecutor Lieutenant Colonel, (Morris Hersh in the West Bank, was built illegally on private Palestinian land in the Efrat settlement near Bethlehem, where it was found that he bought the house in 2012, after the Supreme Court’s decision and shortly before his appointment as head of the Military Prosecution in the West Bank. According to the sources of the National Bureau, construction began in 1994, without permits and without appearing in the map of the construction of the Efrat settlement, where the occupation authorities allocated to the company that built the house, “government land” in the settlement of Gush Etzion, south of Bethlehem.
The judicial system in Israel is an integral part of the occupation. The so-called Supreme Court of Israel gave the residents of the Bedouin east of occupied Jerusalem until next Thursday to find alternative housing for their current houses there. Otherwise, they will be transferred to the “Ein e-Shams area” near Abu Diss town, at the same time it asked the lawyer to offer alternative housing to be approved by the “State,” but if it rejected it, a final decision will be issued to expel the residents of the community by the end of the last week of the school year.
The National Bureau for the Defense of Land and Settlement Resistance said that the crime of displacing the population of the Bedouin community in the Red Khan, east of occupied Jerusalem, falls within the framework of settlement plans aimed at expanding settlements in the eastern part of occupied Jerusalem towards the Dead Sea, which intends to end the Palestinian presence in Area C.
Within the context, the Zandberg Committee headed by Judge, Hayeh Zandberg proposed to legitimize thousands of settlement units built on private Palestinian land in the occupied West Bank. The proposal of the committee is based on the principle of “market regulation” in Israeli property laws, which allows the approval of transactions conducted in good faith and under certain conditions, even if there are some loopholes. This means the laundering of thousands of settlement buildings in various settlements in the occupied West Bank. The committee also proposed building bridges or digging tunnels in the private Palestinian territories surrounding the settlements and settlement outposts located on hills, mountains or valleys, which can’t be linked to or paved roads because they are surrounded by not a State land i.e. the so-called the Airy Islands, and to expand settlements to exceed the boundaries of the land defined as the land of a state, and to refrain from demolishing any house in the settlements, even those built in a way that is contrary to Israeli law, and that means whitening 7,000 settlement units in the occupied West Bank.
While Israeli occupation police initiated activities of an Israeli camp in Jewish schools, including shooting training Jewish schoolchildren to shoot at dolls with pictures of Palestinians wearing kufiyeh.
The Israeli occupation authorities intend to open a new crossing to the north-east of Jerusalem near the “Anatot settlement camp” and to rehabilitate a wide road network linking the settlements in the West Bank with occupied Jerusalem. This broad network of roads comes to consolidate the annexation of the largest bloc in the center of the West Bank under the “Greater Jerusalem Plan”, which includes about 10 to 13% of the West Bank, by annexing the settlement bloc “Maale Adumim” that extends to the Dead Sea.
Within the context of racist laws, the Knesset approved in the first reading a National Law, which defines Israel as a state of the Jews and Jerusalem as its capital. It also defines the symbols of the state and uses Hebrew date in official transactions. The draft undermines the status of Arabic and transforms it from an official language into an ordinary one. It also provides the Jewish communities with a special place to prevent Arabs from living there. The laws also state that the State of Israel is the national home of the Jewish people and that the right to self-determination in the State of Israel is merely limited to the Jews.
A list of Israeli Occupation and Settlers’ Assaults over The Last Week, Documented by the National Bureau:
Jerusalem:
Violating the cemetery of “Bab al-Rahma” adjacent to the wall of Al-Aqsa Mosque in the east, as troops stormed it to protect crews of workers of the so-called “nature protection” and brought iron fence in an effort to put it in the area intended to be confiscated.
Handing over 15demolition orders and summons to citizens from the Old City of Jerusalemem under the pretext of being built without a permit. Moreover, family of Jerusalemits, Eiad Ramadan continued to demolish a parking in the Wadi Hilweh neighborhood of Silwan, South of Al Aqsa Mosque under the pressure of the municipality of the occupation, who was notified 3 months ago to demolish it under the pretext of not having a license.
Jerusalem:
Burning crops 20 dunums of wheat and barley in Musafer Yatta, south of Hebron, belonging to the Dabasah family.
Injuring a worker ran over by a settler near al-Dahariya checkpoint, south of Hebron.
Seizing a bulldozer while working in a farm road west of Dura.
Demolishing a residential room in Yatta south of Hebron, confiscating solar cells, seizing water tanks and its contents in the Beit Ummar town, north of Hebron, under the pretext of not having a license.
Burning Palestinian flag within the so-called Jewish “torch” celebrations and chanting racist slogans against the Palestinians in Hebron to commemorate “the Jewish people’s revolt against the Romans.”
Bethlehem:
Confiscating 72 dunums of Khirbet ‘Aliya and Umm Rakaba area in the Khader town, south of Bethlehem Governorate, belonging to Salah and Sabih families, and surveying a land at the Um Rakaba area.
Notifying a citizen to stop construction at his house in the area of Ein Jweiza, northeast of Al Walaja village, west of Bethlehem Governorate, beside the demolition of agricultural wall, under the pretext of having no license.
Ramallah:
Throwing stones at Palestinian houses and damaged tires of citizens’ vehicles in the Tirmasiya town, north of Ramallah.
Nablus:
Buldozing scores of dunums of agricultural land in Asira al-Qibliya village, south of Nablus, in order to expand the settlement outpost affiliated to the Yitzhar settlement, and preventing settlers from entering the main Mosque of Yasuf village, south of Nablus.
Salfeet:
Bulldozing of lands in the town of Kafr al-Deik in Salfit, to expand the “Ata Zahav” settlement. The areas that are being bulldozed are planted with olive trees and other forest trees.
Attacking farmer, and Journalist, Ohoud Khafash and confiscated her camera and mobile.
Jordan Valley:
Destroying trees and olive groves for the second time in a row in the Bardala village in the northern Jordan Valley, under the protection of Israeli soldiers and prevented the owners of land from reaching their land.
Threatening to expel 5 families from their tents during 3 separate days from 6 am to 2 pm.
