NABLUS, April 17, 2011 (WAFA) - Israeli government is proceeding with its plans of Judaizing East Jerusalem and its Arabic features as well as expanding Jewish neighborhoods in East Jerusalem; which contradicts with the norms of the International Law.
This came in the weekly report issued by the National Bureau for Defending Lands and Resisting Settlement, which monitored Israel’s plans between April 9 and 16 which aim to implement the ‘Geographic Isolation’ in order to hinder the development of East Jerusalem as the capital of the future Palestinian state.
Jerusalem District Planning and Building Committee of the Israeli Interior Ministry approved on establishing 900 new housing units in ‘Har Gilo’ settlement; opposite to al Walaja village, north of Bethlehem, after one day of ratifying on building 942 housing units in the same settlement; this project holds the number (13261) and is called the ‘Southern East Slopes’.
Those two settlements’ projects complete each other and guarantee the expansion of ‘Gilo’ settlement from the south which will construct 1900 housing units; according to these plans’ data, the 900 housing units will be constructed on 228 dunums in residential buildings of four, six and eight floors which meet the region’s nature and the infrastructure of streets and public facilities.
Moreover, the District Planning Committee ratified on the settlement project of establishing a ‘national park’ on the eastern slopes of Mount Olives (Jabal al-Zeitun) , near the (E1) area; that connects Jerusalem and Ma’aleh Adumim.
Israel has been planning for several years to build a neighborhood called ‘Mevaseret Adumim’ in E1 area that will include 3,500 housing units, as well as commercial and tourism facilities, in order to create an urban Jewish contiguity between Jerusalem and Ma'aleh Adumim, in one of Israel’s attempts to strengthen its control over East Jerusalem by ‘enveloping’ it with Jewish neighborhoods.
The report asserted that the Israeli authorities continue at a high level to Judaize landmarks of the Old City of Jerusalem, Gates and Streets; which threatens more than 6000 features within the Walls of the Old City.
Israeli authorities also changed a number of wall stones and replaced them with Jewish Talmudic drawings such as the six-pointed star (David Star) and the third Temple during the restoration of the Walls of Jerusalem, in addition they removed a historic stone arch over Herod’s Gate and replaced it with David’s star ‘six pointed star’ stone.http://english.wafa.ps/index.php?action=detail&id=15907
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