June 5, 2021
RAMALLAH, West Bank Displacement threatens 86 Jerusalemite families, some 750 to 800 people living in 15 buildings in the Batn al-Hawa neighborhood of the east Jerusalem area of Silwan. Their houses are claimed by the Ateret Cohanim settler organization.
The situation in Batn al-Hawa is reminiscent of the events in Sheikh Jarrah, which fanned the flames of the recent armed confrontation between the resistance factions in the Gaza Strip and Israel from May 10 to May 20.
Ateret Cohanim aspires to evict Batn al-Hawa s residents and make the neighborhood into a settlement linked to the outposts established in other Jerusalem neighborhoods.
Silwan, located south of the Mughrabi Gate of the Old City, has been the site of intense settlement activity that started with the establishment of two outposts in 2004. In 2014, Jewish settlers bought several properties in the neighborhoods of Wadi Hilweh and Baidoun quarters in Silwan, as well as land in Batn al-H
By: Madeeha Al-A’raj/ NBPRS/
The National Bureau for defending land and resisting settlements (NBPRS) stated in its latest weekly report, that Netanyahu government continues imposing more new settlement facts on the ground before the USA transfers of power from the outgoing President Donald Trump to the new president-elect Joe Biden, as it is certain that it has lost a great support for its settlement plans and aggressive expansionism, which has never expected such a lost in the United States of America. Indications showed that settlement activities at that the end of the year 2020 and the beginning of the new year 2021 witnessed an escalation in settlement activities, plans and tenders, attacks on citizens and their properties. This is at a time when the Israeli Ministry of Interior published a declaration issued by the so-called Higher Planning Council at the Israeli Civil Administration regarding the deposit of a new settlement plan, which stipulates the confiscation of 1