Palestine News Network (PNN) : "Largest settlement in years being imposed in Al Walajah, a town between Bethlehem and East Jerusalem"

Largest settlement in years being imposed in Al Walajah, a town between Bethlehem and East Jerusalem

30.09.09 - 13:51

Bethlehem / PNN - Under the title "Project: a large Jewish neighborhood in East Jerusalem" the Israeli Maariv newspaper published the news.

On its front page Wednesday the nearing reality came of the loss of even more Bethlehem lands.

Some 14,000 settler units in Bethlehem’s Al Walajeh Village are going in.

This village has a vibrant history of nonviolent resistance to the confiscation of its lands through demonstrations, well-organized documentation, and trips to the courts, both Israeli and international.

But the situation continues to worsen in the town where lands are being taken for settlements and the Wall, and the boundary lines of Al Walajah itself have been changed by the Israelis to deem parts in Jerusalem, with others still in Bethlehem. A single house was divided in two, with residents illegally in Jerusalem because of their West Bank ID’s while in one room over another.

And now the situation is becoming more difficult. Fourteen thousand settlement units are coming at a time when US President Obama has given up the demand that an Israeli settlement freeze must occur before negotiations can begin again.

The plans are being laid for Walajah in the area of southeast Jerusalem by the Regional Office of the Israeli Interior Ministry and the Municipality of occupied Jerusalem.

Maariv wrote that this is the largest settlement construction project in East Jerusalem since Gilo, which was built on the Bethlehem Governorate’s Beit Jala lands, Pisgat Zeev, and Har Homa, which was built on Beit Sahour’s Jabal Abu Ghanaim. The area of this latest illegal settlement is set to be 3,000 acres and will accommodate at least 40,000 Jewish settlers.

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