Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood in Jerusalem .. Settlement deepens new projects policy
Occupied Jerusalem- While the town of Silwan is the southern garrison of the Al -Aqsa Mosque in occupied Jerusalem, the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood is considered the northern garrison for it, and therefore the occupation authorities seek to surround it and settle in it.
Within the ongoing attempts to tighten the grip on the neighborhood, work is currently active on implementing two huge projects, the first of which is a Jewish religious school “Yashiva” that includes housing for religious students and will be established in the eastern part of the neighborhood, known as the generosity of Al -Ja’ouni.
As for the second project, it is a settlement residential neighborhood that will be established in the western part of the Palestinian neighborhood known as “the land of the conflict” and Israeli as “the cabin of Umm Harun”.
Religious settlement
On the religious school, the maps and settlement expert, Khalil Al -Takfiji, spoke to Al -Jazeera Net, saying that a group of religious Jews submitted to the local committee in the municipality of the occupation to establish a religious institute consisting of 9 floors on the ground and 3 below it claiming that the ownership of the land belongs to the “Israel Lands” circle, which is a circle of honor On the lands that were confiscated in 1968 as part of the largest confiscation process in that period and included 3345 dunums (the dunum is equal to one thousand square meters).
The construction area – according to Al -Takjji – will be 9615 square meters on a 4 -dunum area, and several Palestinian families will be evacuated to the north of this project in order to establish a 5 -storey building that includes 10 housing units for the settlers, and to the east of this school, a building will be established It consists of 6 floors to establish offices for this complex.
In the western part of the neighborhood known as the “Land of the Conflict”, a huge settlement project was presented to the table on an area of 17 dunums of 316 housing units, and the occupation authorities – according to the Jerusalem expert – seek to link this project to settlement foci in the eastern part, passing through the Karam Al -Mufti area to the area Jabal Al -Masharaf, which includes the Hebrew University.
Thus, the goal of dividing the neighborhood is achieved into a north and south to facilitate control over it, and linking the two parts of the eastern and western Jerusalem to each other by establishing settlement foci within the Palestinian neighborhoods so that the city of Jerusalem is not divided again, because these projects are part of it within the Sacred region (separating the borders of Israel and Jordan between Amiri 1948 and 1967).
9 settlement projects
According to the researcher who specializes in settlement affairs, Ahmed Subba Laban, the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood suffers from his parts from a settlement crawl and targeting him with 9 settlement projects.
These projects include building settlement units, Jewish sweeps and public buildings affiliated with the Israeli government, according to Laban in a previous interview with Al -Jazeera Net.
He added that the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood, like the rest of the neighborhoods surrounding the ancient town that falls within the Israeli ambitions aimed at expelling the population and forcibly displacing them to control the largest geographical area to ensure control of the so -called “holy basin” that surrounds the old town.
He added that the suffering of the inhabitants of the western part of the neighborhood began in 1967 when the buildings inhabited by the population were placed under the tutelage of the “Israeli public property”, in this section, which is located in the maximum of the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood on the separation line between 1948 and 1967.
The ownership of this part is due to the Hijazi and Mao families, who have fought a long dispute in the Israeli courts to try to prove their ownership of this land, according to the researcher, Sabya Laban.
“There are many evidences that prove the ownership of the two families to the land, and Israel claims that the Jews possess it before 1948, but Jewish families rented homes in the neighborhood in the past and they were paying the rent in the Sharia courts in Jerusalem and this is proven, but Israel struck the wall all of this and put all the population under the danger of The evacuation in favor of the settlers, “according to the Jerusalem researcher.
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Serious registration
Sublin referred to the ongoing attempts to record lands in the name of Jews, which was actually made for a part and recorded by Israeli names, which increases the issue complicated.
In addition to the danger of settlement projects that will be implemented with the power of the occupation in the neighborhood, its inhabitants have been suffering for years from the penetration of settlers between them, after they seized some real estate in the eastern and western parts.
The “Land Registration and Settlement” project is the nightmare that is chasing Jerusalemites whose identification cards are not convincing from the Israeli point of view, and thus facilitate control of the remaining lands and real estate, according to Jerusalemites.
Since the outbreak of the last war on Gaza on October 7, 2023, it has been observed in the launch or implementation of settlement projects in Jerusalem to exploit the world and the media’s preoccupation with what is happening in the Strip.
The Israeli circles intensified their work in several directions in retaliation for the Jerusalemites by intensifying the means of pressure aimed at displacing them from Jerusalem and resolving the palmography palm in the occupied capital in favor of the Jews.
