The Israeli occupation authorities announced more settlement construction in the city of Jerusalem, but this time in the form of towers, in a clear approach to the vertical construction due to the limited spaces, according to a Jerusalem expert.
The Planning and Building Committee of the Municipality of the occupation has ratified in Jerusalem Last week, in two plans, they include the construction of 493 new settlement units in Jerusalem, 278 of which are in the Armun Huntsif settlement east of the city, and 215 in the Kiryat Manaryim, west of it.
The plan includes the construction of two residential towers in the Armun Hantasif settlement, with a height of 26 floors each, including 278 housing units, and a 430 square meter commercial interface.
Commenting on this scheme, the maps and settler expert Khalil Al -Takfaji said in an interview with Al -Jazeera Net that the expansion of the Armun Hunts settlement comes within the clear Israeli policy aimed at changing the demographic in eastern Jerusalem in particular, and Jerusalem in general.
About 300 Palestinians face the threat of immediate forced evacuation within a few days of their homes and lands located in three gatherings in the east of Jerusalem, which is the village of Umm Tuba and the village of Al -Numan and the abdomen of fancy in Silwan.
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Settlement towers
This policy is based on increasing the Israeli population and reducing the Palestinian population, and what helps in this is that 87% of the area of eastern Jerusalem was placed under Israeli control, and now resorting to vertical construction through these new towers is an attempt to exploit the spaces, because there is now no site that a new settlement can be built on, according to the release.
“More than 52% of the area of East Jerusalem has been declared green areas that cannot be built on, and this was one of the methods of controlling lands, and therefore they are now forced to construct vertical construction with the lack of spaces.”
The maps expert Al -Maqdisi added that the Armun Huntsif settlement was established in 1970, shortly after the largest confiscation of the lands of eastern Jerusalem at the time, and included 2240 dunums under the law of use of the public interest.
The lands on which this settlement were set up from my village were confiscated Brilliant photos Umm Tuba, which is inhabited by about 15 thousand people, and the new expansion will be in the southwestern parts of Armun Huntsif, while – according to Khalil Al -Takfaji – a project to set up hotels in the northern part of it was announced, and in conjunction with that part of the American settlement street was established for the benefit of its residents.
In the heart of the Talbiya neighborhood, west of Jerusalem – whose people were robbed and displaced from the power of the occupation in 1948 – the Israeli “Theater” hotel was opened, on Tuesday, to receive the inmates.
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Another expansion over a migrant village
As for the other expansion that has been approved, it will be in the Kiryat Menachem settlement neighborhood in the far west of Jerusalem on the lands of Ain Karem, migrating in 1948, and 215 new housing units will be held for settlers in a tower of 39 floors on an area of two dunums and 200 square meters, on which there is a building of 56 housing units.
The mayor of the occupation in Jerusalem, Moshe Lyon, said in an interview with an Israeli media that he would build at least 100,000 housing units in Jerusalem to keep pace with demand and growth expectations, and among these units will be built 70,000 units within the projects of urban renewal.
In return for all this urban development that Leon is talking about, and a few distance from the municipality building he heads, the bulldozers are constantly ravaged by the homes of Jerusalemites by claiming their construction without a license, as Al -Jazeera Net documented 140 operations demolitions in the various neighborhoods The high fines imposed by the municipality if its bulldozers carry out the demolition.