The Independent: Jewish settlements are encroaching on Palestinian territory



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[ 16/11/2011 – 09:43 AM ]

OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC)– The Independent newspaper said Monday that the Jewish settlers are expanding their presence in the occupied city of Jerusalem as the number of Palestinian natives continues to shrink.

The newspaper noted that the Palestinian town of Beit Safafa, northeast of Jerusalem, is choked up with the building of new settlement outposts which were endorsed by the Israeli government recently.

It quoted one of the town’s Palestinian residents as saying that the lands of Beit Safafa are being swallowed by the new settlement outposts and its natives are suffering from exacerbating housing crisis.

Sami Rashid, a lawyer and a resident of this town, also belied the pledges made by the Israeli municipal council in Jerusalem to give the Palestinians some houses that would be built in the town, the Independent said.

He affirmed that the Israeli government is not building these houses for settlers inside settlements but inside the town, that is already crammed with illegal settlement outposts.

Source and more at the Palestinian Information Center




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Israel’s Jerusalem municipality plans to build more than 50,000 new homes in the city’s occupied eastern sector over two decades:

  • 23,628 homes have already been approved, 20,263 in East Jerusalem and 3,365 in the west.
  • 13,824 are pending review, 12,819 in East Jerusalem and 1,005 in the west.
  • 23,266 housing units are still in planning stages, 19,281 in the east and 3,985 in the west.



Of these, the municipality plans:

  • 10,366 homes in northern East Jerusalem, including illegal Israeli settlement Pisgat Zeev and Palestinian town Beit Hanina.
  • 5,239 homes in southern East Jerusalem, including Gilo settlement and Palestinian district Beit Safafa.
  • 4,886 new units in central eastern Palestinian neighborhood of Silwan and Jerusalem’s Old City.

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Besides this, Israel approved plans to ethnic cleanse 57.000 bedouin from Palestine



Save yourself time. It is only about this : Ethnic Cleansing



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