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By: Madeeha Al-A’raj
The national Bureau for defending land and resisting settlements ( nbprs ) stated in its latest weekly report that Israeli Occupation Government has recently announced that the construction process of settlement and the legalization of settlement outposts in the Palestinian Territory need the approval of the Civil Administration, the Ministry of Settlement, and the Settlement Department Authority at the Ministry of Negev and Galilee. Accordingly, the occupation government has put forward the Qalandia settlement project on the Qalandia Airport’s land, north of occupied Jerusalem, where extremist Knesset members from the parties toured the area to establish a large settlement there.
Therefore, PM of the occupation government, Netanyahu will hold a meeting soon to discuss the project, while members of Knesset in the “Likud” party intend to push it with all force, and other members from the ruling coalition parties named it ‘Seven Hills’. In the past ten years, the Israeli governments have conducted deliberations about it located in an area between the suburb of Al-Ram and the Shuafat Refugee Camp, north of Jerusalem.
The occupation municipality has previously decided to recommend before the Regional Planning Committee to put forward a settlement project in the place with an area of 1265 dunums, and it includes the construction of 9,000 thousand settlement units, in addition to commercial buildings and factories. A project prepared by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to flood the West Bank with underground tunnels in order to solve what he calls the problem of geographical contiguity between Palestinian cities on the one hand, and to solve the problem of securely linking settlements to Israel on the other hand.
In attractive development, the Commander of the West Bank Division at the Israeli Army, Avi Ballut distributed a book to the officers in a meeting titled ‘Ours in the Land Registry: Secrets of Land Saviors from Our Father Ibrahim to Youth Settlement’, knowing that youth settlement has become a name given by settlers to random settlement outposts that were established on private Palestinian lands without an official government decision. Ballut wrote on the book a dedication to the officers in which he considered that it would help them understand the issue of the status of lands in the West Bank.
Author of the book, Lior Zeberg, works in the purchase of land in the West Bank, and he is a well-known person in the settlements, he identifies himself as providing advice to initiators, associations, and local authorities, as well as to heirs who found old property documents.
In 2018, Ballout was appointed as a military advisor to the then PM. In the dedication, Ballut wrote: ‘Dear leaders, in order to carry out the defense mission in Judea and Samaria, there is a need to establish many cooperation measures, to be professionals and to possess information in many fields in addition to the military profession.
In settlement activities, and according to the Israeli military order issued and signed by the head of the so-called Civil Administration, the Occupation Authorities intend to seize the northern and western region of the shores of the Dead Sea, which they call Tsuk ‘Wadi Darag’ according to the Israeli name – under the pretext of classified as a nature reserve. The issued military order bears the title of Order Concerning Nature Protection “Judea and Samaria” no. 363, 573-1969 Declaration of a Nature Reserve.
The military order stated that, according to my powers in accordance with Article 2 of the Order Concerning Nature Protection Judea and Samaria no. 363) 5730- 1969, I declare hereby that the site of Tsuk ‘Wadi Darag’ adjusting borders, which has an area of 84,649 dunums, is recognized as a natural reserve. The occupation authorities also announced that the entry into force of this military order is 60 days from the date of its publication, which corresponded to the 29th of Jan. this year.
In occupied Jerusalem, the occupation municipality approved through the local Planning and Building Committee, the second part of the project to strengthen the south of East Jerusalem according to the plan that was approved and is still subject to development and is scheduled for 7,300 meters. It includes the demolition of existing residential buildings and the construction of three settlement towers of 30 floors with 35 new settlement units.
Since the beginning of this year, the military government has approved a number of settlement plans, amounting to more than 4,700 settlement units, to expand settlements in the southern West Bank and link them to southern occupied East Jerusalem with a network of bypass roads of ‘4,762 dunums,’ since the beginning of Oct. 2022.
List of Israeli Assaults over the Last Week Documented by the National Bureau:
Jerusalem:
- A decision to vacate a residential building belonging to Jerusalemite, Younis Shehadeh. for the benefit of the “Ateret Cohenim” settlement association.The building consists of 5 apartments in the Batn al-Hawa neighborhood in which 35 citizens live.
- Forcing the Qanbar family to self-demolish their home in Jabal Al Mukaber neighborhood and pay a fine of NIS 200,000 under the pretext of building without a permit.
Bethlehem:
- Handing confiscation orders of 490 dunums of the land of the town of Nahalin and the agricultural village of al-Jaba’a, in favor of expanding the settlements of “Alon Shvut” and “Geva’ot” within the “Gush Etzion” settlement complex built on the citizens’ lands.
Nablus:
- Fencing areas in the Yanun land, south of Nablus, in the eastern area of the lands of Aqraba town, noting that the occupation and its settlers control more than 85% of Yanun lands, which is surrounded by 5 settlements and outposts
- Handing stop-work notices for 8 houses and a farm in Duma village, south of Nablus.
Jenin:
- Notifying the two brothers, Jamal and Hisham Mahmoud Abu Farha of demolishing their homes located at the entrance to the village of Al-Jalama, northeast of Jenin, and dozens of citizens were also notified of the removal of their commercial stalls in the area under the pretext that they are nearer to the Al-Jalama military checkpoint.
Jordan Valley:
- Destroying more than 80 dunums of rain-fed crops in Wadi Al-Faw.
- Attacking citizen, Ali Muhammad Mleihat, in Arab Al-Mleihat, northwest of Jericho.
- Notifying 4 families from Khirbet Humsa al-Fawqa, in the northern Jordan Valley, to evict thearea under the pretext of training.
