Israeli Knesset decides not to return confiscated Palestinian Arab lands

[ 09/02/2010 - 08:00 PM ]

OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC)--

The Israeli Knesset (parliament) on Monday endorsed the second and third reading of a draft resolution allowing the return of confiscated lands to their real owners if they weren’t utilized but the new resolution excluded the lands confiscated from Palestinian citizens.

Arab Knesset member Dr. Jamal Zahalqa condemned the resolution, asserting that the Israeli MPs exerted tremendous efforts to formulate the resolution with the one and only aim that is to bloc any form of justice in dealing with the confiscated Palestinian lands.

"This is not a law for returning the lands ... but rather a law to legitimize usurping the Palestinian lands … what kind of democracy that steals the Arab lands because they are Arab only … what kind of equality before the law you are talking about if your main goal is to bloc the owner of the right from retrieving his legal rights … we don’t need your democracy ... we don’t need your equality … we need our land that you usurped from us … take your democracy and give us back our land," Zahalqa said before the Knesset.

Human rights groups: IOA plans demolition of hundreds of homes in OJ

[ 09/02/2010 - 05:16 PM ]

OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC)--

Jerusalemite human rights groups have warned that around one third of the population in the Shiyah suburb in central occupied Jerusalem is threatened with displacement.

They said following a meeting with inhabitants of the suburb that the Israeli occupation authority (IOA) controlled municipality of Jerusalem had issued orders for the demolition of 100 buildings in Shiyah that provide shelter for 4,000 citizens out of the total 15,000 inhabitants of the suburb.

Quds Press quoted Palestinians in the suburb as saying that the municipality was also trying to control land near Shiyah in order expand the nearby Jewish cemetery.

They said that the municipality was targeting the suburb in view of its strategic importance in the demographic balance in Jerusalem.

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