The Israeli occupation begins implementing its plan to displace Jerusalemites from the Al-Bustan neighborhood

 Occupied Jerusalem-SANA

A few days ago, the Israeli occupation began implementing its plan to forcibly displace Palestinians from their homes in the Al-Bustan neighborhood in the town of Silwan in the occupied city of Jerusalem. At a time when the threat of displacement threatens more than 1,500 Palestinians living in the neighborhood, the United Nations has only called for a halt to demolitions and settlements.

The National Office for Defending Land and Resisting Settlements of the Palestine Liberation Organization stated in its weekly report issued today on its website that the occupation authorities began last Tuesday to implement their plan to displace Jerusalemites from Al-Bustan neighborhood by demolishing a commercial facility paving the way for access to more than 13 homes threatening to demolish at any moment The first phase of his plan, which aims to demolish the homes of the entire neighborhood during the month of August.

The report pointed out that the United Nations called on the occupation authorities to stop the demolition and settlement operations, during the international conference organized by the United Nations Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People last Thursday on “forced demographic change in Jerusalem,” where the United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Political Affairs confirmed Rose Marie DiCarlo stressed the need to “respect the status quo in Jerusalem and stop illegal demolitions and settlements in the occupied Palestinian territories,” while the head of the United Nations Committee on the Exercise of the Rights of the Palestinian People “Sheikh Niang” stressed during the conference that “Israeli settlements in “East Jerusalem” constitute a violation blatant to United Nations resolutions and international law.”

The report indicated that the occupation forces demolished a house in the Al-Thawri neighborhood in central Jerusalem, an agricultural facility in the Wadi Al-Hummus neighborhood in the town of Sur Baher south of it, a commercial facility in the Wadi Hilweh neighborhood, a house in the Suwayh neighborhood in the town of Silwan, south of Al-Aqsa Mosque, and a house in the town of Bruqin, west of Salfit. Agricultural crops in the villages of Walaja and Kisan in Bethlehem, Al-Nabi Elias in Qalqilya and Al-Sawiya in Nablus.

The report pointed out that the occupation forces bulldozed areas of Palestinian lands in the town of Beit Kahil, west of Hebron city, and closed with cement the water springs that Palestinians use to irrigate their crops in the Al-Baq'a area, east of the city.

The report indicated that the settlers, under the protection of the occupation forces, continue their attacks on the cities and towns of the West Bank, as they seized a house in Wadi Hilweh neighborhood in Silwan town in Jerusalem, 50 dunums of Palestinian lands in Kisan village in Bethlehem, and areas of Deir Qadis village west of Ramallah. They also stormed villages Al-Tawana, south of Hebron, Einabus, south of Nablus, Tayasir in Tubas, and Battir town in Bethlehem. They attacked Palestinian homes and properties, cut down hundreds of fruit trees, and burned dozens of dunums of agricultural land in the villages of Burin, Qaryut, Duma and Jalud in Nablus.