[ 25/12/2010 - 03:13 PM ]
OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC)-- The Jerusalem center for social and economic rights released a report Saturday documenting Israel's violations against Arab citizens of Jerusalem in November 2010, with special focus on settlement activity in the city.
Israel's Jerusalem municipality okayed construction on 1,300 new residential units for Jewish settlers in that time frame in the eastern area of the Pisgat Ze'ev settlement, the group in Jerusalem reported. Israeli authorities have sights set on building 980 new units in the Har Homa settlement which was founded on the city's Jebel Abu Ghunaim district, and 320 more units in Ramot.
Three new plans were launched that month to expand the Reches Shuafat, Har Homa, and Ramat Shlomo settlements with the erection of around 715 residential units inside them.
66 Jewish families moved to the Ma'ale Hazeitim settlement which was established on the city's Ras Al Amoud neighborhood amid a plan to expand the settlement and raise the number of Jewish residents.
Israeli authorities arrested five Palestinians in east Jerusalem's Arab Silwan district, and extended the detention of nine others from Silwan and Issawiyya, their ages ranging from 10 to 18 years.
Israeli police caused injury in November to an eight-year-old boy in Silwan, Adam Mansur Resheq. He was admitted into intensive care.
A tourist from Chile was brutally assaulted by a gang of extremist Jews while he was touring the city, after they mistook him for an Arab.
[ 25/12/2010 - 02:02 PM ]
OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC)-- Specialist in settlement affairs Qais Naser said that the Israeli ministry of housing is working on building and marketing about 5,000 new settlement units in the occupied territories of Jerusalem and the West Bank.
Naser affirmed in a statement on Saturday that this Israeli ministry sold in 2010 more than 1,400 housing units in settlements in Jerusalem and the West Bank, especially the settlements of Homat Shmuel, Ma'ale Adumim and Pisgat Ze'ev.
He added that the ministry is embarking on marketing the sale of other 594 housing units in Pisgat Ze'ev settlement and 1,280 others in Homat Shmuel, and until now it has sold 312 units in these two settlements.
The specialist affirmed that the ministry announced during November 2010 tenders for the construction and leasing of 80 housing units in Pisgat Ze'ev and 158 others in Ramot settlement, adding that the Israeli committee of planning and building during the same month also declared plans to build 1,230 units in Har Homa, Homat Shmuel, and Ramot.
In another incident, Yerushalayim newspaper reported on Friday that the Israeli committee of planning and building intends to build 212 housing units north of Ramat Shlomo settlement in Jerusalem.
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