Hebron - "Jerusalem" dot com - Jihad Al-Qawasmi - The Israeli occupation is trying to Judaize the ancient town of Hebron, taking advantage of what is called absentee property or state property, and issuing registration papers for settlers, which would seize the buildings of Palestinian citizens, Judaize the town, expand settlement, and impose new facts and change its demographic profile.

Fabricated novel
Jamal Talab al-Amleh, director of the Land Research Center, said that the city of Hebron is a historically targeted city due to its association with the sons of God, Ibrahim al-Khalil, even though he came to it while it was full of its Palestinian Canaanites, who are older than religions. This fabricated biblical narrative becomes a tool in the hands of the occupation to legitimize its existence, explaining that this false narrative will fall completely, if they abandon Hebron or if they move away from Hebron, and they seek from the beginning to intensify settlement there.

He added that the occupation tried to separate the city of Hebron from the towns and villages, accompanied by settlement within the city, pointing out that the settlement outposts inside the ancient town of Hebron are many and are within the classified area (H2), which is under absolute Israeli control, then they surrounded Hebron with cordons of settlements and colonies and surrounded villages with other settlements and bypass roads until the Hebron governorate became a group of islands scattered and cut off from each other.

Too dangerous
Al-Amleh explained that from reading what is happening on the ground in terms of spreading settlement, we see that there is a plan to isolate Hebron from the rest of the West Bank, through what is called absentee property or state property and renting it to settlers, but it came to them to officially register real estate in the settlers’ names, stressing that The Custodian of Absentee Property is not entitled to dispose of property and real estate in terms of sale or transfer of ownership, and his task is limited to preserving it from any encroachment.

He pointed out that the agreement between the Likud parties and the extreme right, to form the government, to expand settlement outposts in Hebron, constitutes a great danger and is one of the steps to Judaize the city, explaining that changing the essential function of the absentee property custodian raises many questions about the legal status of absentee property and the possibility of seizing it and expelling it. Protected citizens and tenants, thus Judaizing the old town of Hebron.

Catastrophic situation
Imad Hamdan, Director General of the Hebron Rehabilitation Committee, described the situation in the ancient town of Hebron as disastrous, and is working to increase the settlement and Jewish presence, as the occupation intends to establish a new settlement neighborhood and expand the "Abraham Abino" settlement by seizing the wholesale market and demolishing shops as far as Hakoura al-Kayal. In which the occupation destroyed 6 shops, which reinforces the settlement and Judaization of the entire town.

He explained that the occupation deliberately issued registration papers for settlers wishing to buy Palestinian property to facilitate the transfer of real estate and homes, instead of removing them from official Palestinian institutions, and this facilitates the process of appropriating real estate, so that the Palestinian and the settler become holders of property ownership papers, then the case is transferred to the Israeli courts and issued The decision is in favor of the settler, stressing that dozens of homes are threatened with eviction in the old town of Hebron.