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Tue 13 Jun 2023 8:05 am - Jerusalem Time

A new settlement plan targeting areas of occupied Jerusalem


The so-called Israeli District Committee decided to expand settlement construction in the western triangle north of occupied East Jerusalem on the lands of the villages of Lifta, Beit Iksa, Beit Hanina al-Tahta and Shuafat to expand the settlements of Ramot and Ramat Shlomo by 1,703 new settlement units in the separating area between Beit Hanina al-Tahta, which has become behind the separation wall, and Beit Hanina al-Tahta. Hanina Al-Fawqa within the borders of the occupation municipality after the wall was pushed back and dozens of cameras were re-fenced and installed along the Jerusalem-Tel Aviv bypass road 443, which divided Beit Hanina into two parts and isolated Beit Hanina Al-Tahta from the rest of its lands in Jerusalem.


Resolution No. 59992/23 states that work is to expand the northwestern area of ​​Ramat Shlomo settlement by 900 settlement units in the foothills of Shuafat lands to the west with its borders adjacent to bypass road 443 by 28 buildings, each building consisting of 6 floors according to a natural gradient, and connecting it to another Fatafy Street as an exit. to the settlement on Highway 443.


The decision includes a new plan to build 1,703 settlement units in the Ramot settlement, between the displaced village of Beit Hanina and Lifta, and the village of Beit Iksa to the west.


The villages northwest of Jerusalem, especially Nabi Samuel, Beit Iksa, Lifta, and Beit Hanina, are subjected to racist measures that isolated them, reduced their population, and confiscated most of their lands, especially after the completion of the apartheid wall in Beit Hanina, which swallowed up more than 65% of their lands, while the villages of Beit Iksa and Nabi Samuel, their population shrank to Less than 20% of the original number and turned into a semi-isolated area suffering from continuous suffocation by the occupation.


According to the same plan, the "Ramot" settlement will be expanded on the opposite side of the Ramat Shlomo settlement, with a series of residential buildings and towers from 8 to 20, according to the heights that are commensurate with a corresponding gradation, by 1,200 settlement units at the expense of the lands of Lifta, whose people were displaced, and on the lands of Beit Iksa, "the plain area." To form a settlement wall from west to east with the construction of a bridge over Street No. 1, from which a tunnel branches under the settlement of the French Hill and Mount Scopus towards the settlement of Ma'ale Adumim, and the second branch on the lands of Shuafat, through the settlement of Givat Zeev and the settlement of Nebi Jacob.

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A new settlement plan targeting areas of occupied Jerusalem