Occupied Jerusalem-SANA
The National Office for the Defense of the Earth and Resistance to Settlement, affiliated to the Palestine Liberation Organization, affirmed that the Israeli occupation authorities continue to implement the crime of silent ethnic cleansing of the Palestinians in occupied Jerusalem to implement their Judaic settlement plans.
Ma'an News Agency quoted the weekly office report issued today as saying that the occupation authorities continue to implement their plans and policies based on the Judaization of the city by force by demolishing the homes of Jerusalemites and restricting them and the continuous attacks on the Al-Aqsa Mosque and excavation work and the tunnels network below it and below the old town neighborhoods to change the landmarks of Jerusalem and falsify its heritage, civilization and history .
The report pointed out that the occupation authorities announced 31 settlement plans to expand 26 settlements established on Palestinian land during the first quarter of this year, indicating that among them are plans to establish 4078 new settlement units on 2294 dunums of occupied Jerusalem land.
The report indicated that the occupation authorities notified last week of demolishing 56 homes and facilities in the occupied city of Jerusalem, while settlers on social media launched electronic campaigns calling for the demolition of the historic Jerusalem walls.
The report pointed out that the Prime Minister of Benjamin Netanyahu stressed that the investigations of the International Criminal Court with war crimes in Palestine, including those related to settlement crimes, constitute a "threat to Israel", stressing that preventing the investigation from taking place will be a top priority for his government.
The report pointed out that in this context and in light of the unlimited American support, the American administration also attacked the international criminal, and Foreign Minister Mike Pompeo reiterated Washington's opposition to any court move against Israel.
The report pointed out that the international reactions rejecting the Israeli annexation plans supported by the United States of America continue in a joint statement, delegates of the five countries "France, Belgium, Germany, Estonia and Poland" to the United Nations before the start of the UN Security Council session on the situation in the Middle East, including the Palestinian issue that International law is an essential pillar of the international system, and their countries will not recognize any change on the 1967 borders. The European Union representative to Palestine, Sven Cohen von Burgsdorf, stressed the union’s solidarity with the Palestinian people in facing threats to annex parts of the West Bank, as this matter contradicts international law, Security Council resolutions and union principles European.
The report stated that the Israeli occupation forces escalated their attacks on West Bank cities and towns, demolishing a house in the village of Al-Walajah, west of Bethlehem, and burning large areas of Palestinian agricultural lands in Yatta and Birin, south of Hebron, and the Al-Burj area in the Jordan Valley, and bulldozed 15 dunums planted with olive trees in the lands between the two villages of Kafa Shufa, southeast of Tulkarm.
The report stated that the settlers continue their attacks against the Palestinians by protecting the occupation forces, as they stormed the Tel Rumaida neighborhood in Hebron and Barqa and Orma in Nablus and attacked Palestinian homes, stormed Palestinian agricultural lands in Wadi al-Jamjoum in Bethlehem and the village of Deir Nizam northwest of Ramallah and cut dozens of fruitful trees and set fire to agricultural fields in The towns of Orif, Asira al-Qibliya, Ras al-Deir, and Al-Sawiya are south of Nablus and Ramen is east of Tulkarm.
