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By: Madeeha Araj
Under the international public opinion and Human Right Organizations, the Sant Yves Institution, and Jerusalem Center for Legal Assistant and Human rights managed to got a decision by the Israeli High Court to freeze the Israeli order concerning the administrative demolitions in Area C, which expected to come into effect on 17TH of this month. The Israeli prosecution informed the Israeli High Court not to activate the duties until a decision on the petition submitted by the above-mentioned institutions is taken.
The military order signed on 17 April by Nadav Baidin, the Central Area Commander with Rogevim Association is considered as a permit for ethnic cleansing in Areas C.
The military order in practice cancels the Jordanian Planning and Building Law that applied on the West Bank as an occupied area. It also grants the civil administration wide duties in demolishing Palestinians buildings where the Palestinian are deprived from appealing. It also entitled, the Civil Administration Inspector to demolish any under construction building or a building that was dwelt less than 30 days, unless he/she proves a building permit.
Human Rights watch called on the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court to open an official investigation on the aggression and the crimes committed by the Israeli Army against the Palestinian since 2014 including new settlements within the occupied territories.
A list of more than 300 international figures have signed a petition which considers the forced relocation as a war crime, and called on Israel to backtrack its decision and protects the rights of the people to remain in their land. The list included international, regional and local lawmakers, academics, artists, human rights activists, 90 former and current prime ministers.
Simultaneously, a decision was raised to the Knesset by the Israeli government coalition to put Palestinian land in the occupied West Bank under the control of the “Settlement Brigade,” the Ministerial Legislation Committee also supports the move, which aims at legitimizing the settlement operations. Moreover, the law stipulated that those in charges of the neglected-governmental lands in West be granted to the Settlement Brigade is an independent unit funded by the Israeli government, aims to establish settlements in West Bank, the Negev and the Galilee in order to run them under the Israeli Land Authority Criteria.
Within the context of pushing the settlement plans in the vicinity of Jerusalem forward, the Israeli Ministry of Housing and Construction published a tender for the construction of 459 housing units in the Ma’ale Adumim. According to the tender, the buildings will be built in 5 different plots of land. Thus, Netanyahu called on Benny Ksrael, Mayor of Maale Adumim and informed him on the approval of constructing 459 housing units in an area called “Square Kam.” The project includes the construction of 450 housing units and 300 Jewish families will be settled there by the end of this year. In addition, the Jerusalem District Planning and Building Committee recently held deliberations to establish a new residential neighborhood near the village of Walaja in the West Bank, which includes 5000 housing units as solutions for young couple, a parking lot, a hotel, offices and shops on approximately 200 square kilometers of Palestinian land to ensure Jews majority in Jerusalem.
The Israel Land Authority is working on a plan to build a new neighborhood in Mevasseret Zion, 40% percent of which lies behind the Green Line. The plan, which covers an area of 46 dunums, includes 290 housing units in ten buildings consist of 7 – 10 floors, including commercial spaces, kindergartens and green areas. The southern part of the plan is planned to be built in the Mefertit Tzion area. The plan was filed 3 months ago for objections to the public.
Within the context of clarifying the intentions of the Settler government, head of the Jewish House Party, and Education Minister of the Israeli government, Naftali Bennett, said that the West Bank and all its settlements would soon become part of the “State of Israel.” The Israeli occupation police evacuated 13 houses in the settlement of Netiv Havot, located on a hill belonging to Palestinian civilians in the town of Khader, west of Bethlehem. Bennett confirmed that the Israeli government had approved the establishment of a settlement in the area, adding Netanyahu has vowed to approve them. A huge neighborhood will be built on this hill, allocated a budget of NIS 70,000,000 to evacuate the settlement and compensate the settlers, some of which is used for the construction of temporary buildings for the settlers to be evacuated. He also said that the government is expected to build new buildings in a location close to the settlement, under the pretext that they are not a Palestinian lands.
A list of Israeli Occupation and Settlers’ Assaults over the Last Week, Documented by the National Bureau:
Jerusalem:
- Demolishing a building under construction in the Abu Dis town belonging to Hussein Moh’d Khalil Wahish under the pretext of being close to the Separation Wall, another house in the village of Qalandia, north of Jerusalem, belonging to ‘Ali Motair, where the Israeli army carried out the demolition and ordered him to pay NIS 150,000.
- Transferring 5.5 dunums in Silwan, where about 1200 Palestinians live there to the hands of Ateret Cohnim Association.
- Attacking the cemetery “Bab al-Rahma” adjacent to the wall of the Al-Aqsa Mosque, erecting a wire fence around it in preparation for conversion to biblical gardens.
Ramallah:
- Uprooting olive trees were uprooted from the lands of the village of Tirmasya, north of Ramallah, under the protection of the Israeli occupation army.
- Demolishing a house in the Amari Refugee Camp under the pretext that an Israeli soldier was killed there 3 weeks ago.
Hebron:
- Inaugurating Police Station in the old town of Hebron, attended by the Israeli Minister of Internal Security “Gilad Arad” and the Inspector General of Police, “Roni Sheikh, who noted that the Station will serve about 30,000 settlers living in Hebron and the settlement of Kiryat Arba, saying it is the first police station in the Jewish settlement in Hebron since the occupation of Palestine in 1948..
- Establishment of a new settlement outpost on the land of Bani Na’im, east of Hebron, estimated at 20 dunums, a few meters away from the settlement of Bani Hefer.
- Settling 30 donums of Palestinian land near Yatta, south of Hebron, under protection from the Israeli occupation forces to expand the settlement of Maon, and the settlement outpost of Ma’on, Karmiel, Ophail, Metspey Yair, Maon and Havat Ma’on.
- Raising the slogan “Agricultural Terrorism” to justify aggression against the Palestinians to prevent them from cultivating their lands in preparation for their confiscation. The slogan was seen in the lands of Khirbat Askariya, which is surrounded by the settlement outposts in the Gush Etzion complex.
- Cutting down 200 olive trees in Hebron, saying, “the price must be paid by agricultural terrorism”
- Throwing stones of empty bottles at the homes of citizens in the Shohada’ Street in the old town of Hebron, wounded many Palestinians.
Nablus:
- Issuing a decision to confiscate approximately 25 dunums of land belonging to villages south of Nablus, to establish a new settlement outpost, on Mount Sabih near the villages of Qablan, Betta and Yitma, on the grounds that they are used for military purposes near the Za’tara checkpoint.
- Attacking Palestinian houses in Burin village,, confrontation took place between Israeli soldiers and residents of the village, 2 residents of the village were injured and taken to Nablus hospitals.
- Setting fire to some trees in the village of Burqa, northwest of Nablus, scores of old Palestinian olive trees were put to fire, and Palestinian vehicles passing by were stoned. Palestinian citizen Darin Mustafa Abu al-Haija from Jenin was moderately injured near the evacuated settlement of “Homesh” close to the Silat Dhahr village south of Jenin.
Jordan Valley:
- Notifying Ahmed Assi Dumra to evacuate his 25 dunums of land planted with palms in the area of ’Arab al-Zayid, near the town of Nu’aymah, north of Jericho for military training, also notifying Suleiman al-Zayd to evacuate his 4 dunums planted with olive trees under the same pretext.
- Bulldozing 70 dunums in the area of Makhoul in order to expand an Israeli Camp and settlement. The occupation forces erected the camp and the settlement of Hamdat on agricultural land.
- Preventing work in solar cells in the village of Bardala in the northern Aghwar, which is feeding an artesian well with electricity in the Saqun Plain near Bardala village in the northern Jordan Valley.
- Expelling 21 Palestinian families, living in Khirbat Hamsa al-Fawqa, in the Jordan valley from their homes under the pretext of military training.
