Israeli occupation government to build 1883 new housing units in occupied Jerusalem

[ 10/07/2008 - 11:33 AM ]

OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC)--

The Israeli controlled municipality of occupied Jerusalem has endorsed plans to build 983 new housing units in Jabal Abu Ghunaim (the illegal Israeli settlement of Har Homa) south of occupied Jerusalem.

An Israeli society monitoring settlement activity in occupied Jerusalem reported that the municipality would soon publish its scheme before final endorsement to allow objections.

It added that the municipality sanctioned another plan to build 900 housing units north of occupied Jerusalem specifically in Pisgat Ze'ev settlement.

Meanwhile, the Israeli information center for human rights B'Tselem said that the Israeli separation wall in the West Bank would annex 60 settlements to the 1948 occupied lands.

It added that 11.9% of the total area of the West Bank would be confiscated at completion of the wall, and noted that 498,000 Palestinians live in those areas in 92 villages.

The organization noted that Israel did not heed The Hague international court of justice's ruling that the wall was "illegal" and even ignored Israeli court decisions that recommended diverting path of the wall in order to avoid Palestinian populated areas.

Abu Sha'ar slams building of 1800 settlement units in Jerusalem

[ 10/07/2008 - 03:52 PM ]

GAZA, (PIC)--

PA Awkaf (endowment) minister Dr. Taleb Abu Sha'ar has strongly condemned on Thursday the Israeli decision of building 1800 new settlement units in the occupied city of Jerusalem, accusing the IOA of distorting Muslim identity of the city.

"The Zionist institution had been and still is working for the distortion of the Muslim identity of Jerusalem as evident with the new decision of constructing 1800 new settlement units in the occupied Jerusalem in an unprecedented construction momentum in the city with the full support of the Israeli occupation government", asserted Abu Sha'ar in a statement he issued in this regard and a copy of which was obtained by the PIC.

He also added, "The Israeli occupation's practices against occupied Jerusalem and the holy Al-Aqsa Mosque became very well known across the world and not only in the Arab and Muslim worlds".

"This is a clear indicator that the Israeli occupation government isn't interested in achieving peace in the region, and that it was only buying time to carry out its plans and projects in the city in clear undermining of the international laws and resolutions", added Abu Sha'ar, accusing the USA of fully backing the Israeli venture in occupied Palestine.

In this concern, Abu Sha'ar called on the Arab and Muslim Ummah, the Arab League, the OIC, and the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) to immediately and swiftly mobilize to block the US-Israeli conspiracies against the holy Muslim city, underlining that Palestinian unity becomes a national imperative in order to strengthen the Palestinian internal front against the Israeli intrigues that want to deny the Palestinians their independent state with Jerusalem as its capital.

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