New settlement construction will strangle Beit Safafa
Latest News, Palestinian grassroots Anti-Apartheid Wall Campaign, March 15th, 2008
A spokesman from the District Committee for Planning and Housing revealed that 2,200 additional housing units for the East Jerusalem settlement Giv'at HaMatos had been approved two weeks ago. These make up the first phase of the planned 4,000 housing units that will be constructed with the aim of encircling the village of Beit Safafa with a settlement belt.
Giv'at HaMatos settlement was founded in 1991 on land belonging to Beit Safafa and has since been moving further and further onto village land towards the Gilo settlement and the Hebron road. According to a report appearing on the website Arab 48, the area where the units are to be built is one of the widest uninhabited areas under the control of the Occupation authorities in Jerusalem. Around 40% of land is considered by the Occupation to be “state land”, 40% is privately owned by Palestinians and 20% is land previously confiscated by Zionists.
In addition, the Occupation government decided last week to continue the construction of 750 housing units in the Giv’at Ze’ev settlement that is constructed on Palestinian land northwest of Jerusalem. At the same time, Occupation forces have destroyed more than 50 Palestinian homes in the past two and a half months following the Annapolis conference.
EXPLORE THE ISSUE
Search for more about Jerusalem on this site.
RECENT SITE ADDITIONS
Open Letter to Palestine solidarity activists and human rights defenders (June 19th, 2009)
"Summer In The Streets" for Palestine kicks off with theater, song and dance in New York City (July 2nd, 2009)
Ni’lin sends eyewitnesses to UN to testify about Occupation assassination policy (July 2nd, 2009)
Arms trade and occupation economics fact sheets (July 1st, 2009)
Letter of Solidarity to the people of Honduras (July 1st, 2009)
Naomi Klein in the West Bank (July 1st, 2009)
Stop the implementation of Agrexco on the Port of Sète, France (July 1st, 2009)
|
 |
|
