A settlement scheme of the occupation threatens to seize one million dunums of Palestinian land

Occupied Jerusalem-SANA

A new settlement scheme for the Israeli occupation, the largest and most dangerous, threatens about a million dunams of Palestinian land between the occupied city of Jerusalem and the Dead Sea in the West Bank, in an attempt to separate its south from its north and center, while the international community is standing by, as usual, despite UN resolutions confirming the illegality of settlement and calling for it to be stopped. .

The National Office for Defending Land and Resisting Settlements of the Palestine Liberation Organization explained in a report published today on its website that the occupation media revealed a settlement scheme that is the largest and most dangerous ever, because it threatens to seize an area of ​​up to one million acres between Jerusalem and the Dead Sea to separate the southern West Bank from north and center, indicating that the scheme is strategically dangerous because it completely eliminates any chance of establishing a Palestinian state on the June 4, 1967 line.

The report pointed out that the occupation authorities announced a plan to establish a settlement outpost on an area of ​​4.5 dunums in the northeastern corner of the Old City wall in Jerusalem. They also began implementing the first phase of a new Judaization scheme aimed at dismembering East Jerusalem and extending from Al-Anbiya Street, which is located in the western part of the city. Jerusalem to reach Bab al-Amoud and then Salah al-Din al-Ayyubi Street with the aim of linking west Jerusalem with its east.

The report pointed out that the occupation escalated settlement operations throughout the West Bank. In Nablus, it announced a plan to establish 100 settlement units on an area of ​​201 dunums of the lands of the towns of Azmut and Deir al-Hatab, and seized 1,480 dunums of the lands of the cities of Nablus and Ramallah to expand settlements on the lands of the villages of Jalud, al-Mughir and Turmusaya, while He began building a settlement road that threatened to seize thousands of dunums of land from the city of Al-Bireh and the village of Ein Yabroud, to the east, to form a belt of settlement roads.

The report indicated that the occupation forces demolished two houses in the towns of Sur Baher and Beit Hanina in Jerusalem and a house in Aqabat Jaber camp in Jericho, while notifying the demolition of several houses and commercial and agricultural facilities in the town of Marda in Salfit and the towns of Yatta, Al-Tawana and Al-Rafa’iya in Hebron, while razing 14 dunums planted with olives in the town of Al-Khader near Bethlehem and erected a permanent barrier between Palestinian homes in the Umm Rakba area inside the town.

The report stated that the settlers continued their attacks on the cities and towns of the West Bank under the protection of the occupation forces, as they stormed the Masafer Yatta areas in Hebron and Bir Aouneh in Bethlehem and the town of Burin and Qaryut in Nablus, and burned areas of land planted with olive trees and other fruitful trees, and attacked Palestinian homes and properties in the towns of Cyrenaica In Nablus, a guard guarded Salfit and cut off the road between Jenin and Nablus.

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