The native committee for planning and development of the Jerusalem Municipality yesterday accepted plans for constructing 3,557 new settlement items in occupied Jerusalem, Peace Now revealed yesterday.
In accordance with the Israeli NGO which displays settlement actions, the development of the brand new items varieties a part of 5 plans.
“One plan is between Har Homa and Givat Hamatos, and the opposite plans are on the sting of French Hill in the direction of Mount Scopus,” Peace Now stated.
It added: “The entire plans are dangerous information for the soundness of Jerusalem and for the possibilities for peace, however probably the most dangerous plan by way of the chance to achieve two states, is the plan often known as the ‘decrease aqueduct plan’.”
This plan is positioned south of Kibbutz Ramat Rachel close to Givat Hamatos and Har Homa, and it consists of constructing a brand new settlement with 1,465 settlement items.
In accordance with Peace Now, the brand new settlement “is meant to attach the settlement of Har Homa with Givat Hamatos and full the Israeli southern ring that can block the potential Palestinian continuum between the Palestinian neighbourhoods in East Jerusalem and Bethlehem.”
READ: Israeli settler runs over elderly Palestinian
The Native Committee of the Jerusalem Municipality, Peace Now says, has no authority to approve the plan however can advocate it to the District Committee.
Nevertheless, on 17 January 2022, the plans are going to be mentioned by the Jerusalem District Planning and Building Committee.
“The District Committee has the authority to approve the plans and as soon as they cross the approval for the deposit, the statutory planning course of begins, which normally takes a couple of yr or two,” Peace Now stated.
“After the approval of the District Committee, it’s far more troublesome to cease the plans.”
Since 1967, the Israeli authorities initiated and deliberate roughly 56,000 settlement items for Israelis in occupied Jerusalem, whereas Palestinians have been granted permission to construct solely 600 items within the Seventies, the Israeli NGO stated.
