Occupied Jerusalem-SANA
The National Office for Defending Land and Resisting Settlement of the Palestine Liberation Organization confirmed that the Israeli occupation continues to seize Palestinian lands and forcible displacement in the West Bank, including occupied Jerusalem, in an attempt to empty it of the Palestinian presence and implement its settlement plans, ignoring all international resolutions.
In its weekly report issued today, the office stated that the occupation authorities announced a new plan to establish 350 settlement units to expand a settlement built on Palestinian lands near Ramallah in the West Bank, a week after announcing a plan to establish 560 settlement units to expand a settlement built on Palestinian lands in the villages of Kisan and Rashida, south of East Bethlehem.
The report indicated that the occupation is stepping up its settlement operations in occupied Jerusalem with the aim of completely Judaizing it, separating it from its Palestinian surroundings, obliterating its features and controlling its sanctities, foremost of which is Al-Aqsa Mosque, in the context of implementing its plans that target the neighborhoods of the Holy City, especially Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood, Bab Al-Amoud and Sultan Suleiman Street, as well as its plan to build a settlement bridge It connects the Mount of Olives to the eastern wall of Al-Aqsa Mosque and the Bab Al-Rahma cemetery.
The report pointed to the continuous provocative incursions into the courtyards of Al-Aqsa Mosque by the occupation forces and settlers, and the assault on the Palestinians. A Palestinian woman was injured two days ago when she was run over by an Israeli settlement near the Mughrabi Gate, one of the mosque’s doors. A number of Palestinians were injured, including a child, and three others were arrested yesterday as a result of the occupation forces’ attack. They are in the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood of the Holy City.
The report indicated that the occupation forces stormed with a number of bulldozers in the Al-Fardis area, east of Bethlehem, and demolished a Palestinian house. They also razed four dunums of land for the Palestinians and built a water well in the areas of Qornet Abu Ali and Khirbet Al-Ghazawi in the Al-Qabo area between the villages of Husan and Wadi Fukin, west of Bethlehem. Dunams of Palestinian lands near the Za’tara checkpoint, south of Nablus, belonging to the village of Yatma, with the aim of building a settlement road, while dozens of olive trees were uprooted in Jayyous village, east of Qalqilya, after razing 30 dunums of land in the Yobek al-Aqd Basin area west of the village.
The report indicated that the settlers continue their attacks on the cities and towns of the West Bank under the protection of the occupation forces, as they attacked Palestinian farmers while they were working on their lands in the Al-Shorfa area, east of Deir Jarir village in the city of Ramallah. They also stormed the Jabal Al-Alam area in the town of Ni’lin, northwest of the city, and burned dozens of olive trees. They also stormed Palestinian lands in Ein al-Bayda and Birin, east of Yatta, south of Hebron, and bulldozed large areas of it with the aim of expanding settlement operations. A group of settlers attacked Palestinians in Jaber neighborhood in the Old City of Hebron, under the protection of the occupation forces, who fired bullets and poison gas bombs, injuring a number of them. In cases of suffocation, settlers continued to bulldoze lands in Khirbet al-Suwayda in the Jordan Valley, with the aim of expanding a settlement outpost built on Palestinian lands in the area.