Occupied Jerusalem-SANA
The Palestinians in the Batn al-Hawa neighborhood in the town of Silwan in the occupied city of Jerusalem continue the battle of steadfastness in the face of the attempts of the Israeli occupation to uproot them from their land and forcibly displace them from their homes to implement its plans to Judaize the city, change its Arab-Palestinian features and falsify its history.
The threat of forced displacement threatens more than 700 Palestinians in the neighborhood adjacent to Al-Aqsa Mosque from the southern side, where the occupation forces and settlers storm the neighborhood daily and brutally attack its people, whose homes the occupation demolishes or seizes to hand them over to settlers with the aim of encircling Al-Aqsa with a settlement belt and tightening its siege on the Old City of Jerusalem and isolating it from The rest of the city's neighborhoods and towns, in light of the international community's silence about these attacks, which it asserts amount to crimes against humanity without taking any actual action to stop them.
Spokesman for Silwan residents Fakhri Abu Diab indicated in a statement to SANA reporter that the occupation has seized large areas of the neighborhood’s lands since 1948 and established 12 outposts that turned the lives of its people into hell to force them to leave their homes, stressing that this matter will never happen and that the Palestinians will not leave Their homes and land, and they will not allow the occupation to cancel their existence and obliterate their identity if it costs them their lives.
In turn, Director of Wadi Hilweh Center, Jawad Siam, confirmed that the occupation’s plans to displace dozens of Palestinian families from the neighborhood come within the framework of its plans to establish a settlement belt extending from the Batn Al-Hawa neighborhood to the Al-Bustan neighborhood, in which the occupation plans to demolish 84 homes, passing through the Wadi Hilweh neighborhood to the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood to besiege Al-Aqsa. And the old city from the south side with settlements.
Seyam stressed that what is happening in the neighborhoods of the Old City of Jerusalem of Judaization, settlement, displacement and excavations is to change the cultural and historical landscape of the Arab city of Jerusalem geographically and demographically, calling on the free people of the world to support the people of Jerusalem in their battle against Judaization and settlement, which is a violation of all international laws and resolutions.
For his part, Director of Al-Quds International Center Hassan Khater said that the occupation, after its defeat in front of the steadfastness of the Palestinians in the face of attempts to forcibly displace them from their homes in the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood, started a new battle to displace them from the Batn al-Hawa neighborhood in Silwan and will also fail thanks to the persistence of the Palestinians.
Khater pointed out that the occupation continues its policies of ethnic cleansing in occupied Jerusalem in front of the eyes of the world, which is following coldly the news of the martyrdom of dozens of Palestinians and the injury and arrest of hundreds of them during the storming of the occupation forces in the Batn al-Hawa and Sheikh Jarrah neighborhoods in Jerusalem, stressing the need for the international community to break its silence and stop the crimes of the occupation against the Palestinians. .
For his part, Head of the Studies and Documentation Unit in the Palestinian Prisoners and Ex-Prisoners Affairs Authority, Abdel Nasser Farwana, indicated that the occupation has arrested 800 Palestinians in Jerusalem during the past two months, indicating that the occupation is launching a massive arrest campaign in the city with the aim of suppressing the Palestinian uprising in it and in the West Bank against settlement and Judaization, stressing that it will not He succeeds in breaking the will of the steadfastness and steadfastness of the Palestinians in defending Jerusalem and its sanctities until the end of the occupation.
Mohammed Abu Shabab