[ 03/04/2011 - 04:04 PM ] OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC)-- Israel's Jerusalem municipality and nature authority have devised a plan to turn land in the city's Issawiyya and Tur districts into a national park, a Palestinian lecturer and researcher disclosed.
The move came after claims that the area contains Jewish ”valueables” that belong to the second alleged temple.
”It is expected that the district planning and building committee in the Israeli Ministry of Interior will decide next Tuesday to accept the plan initially and take it to the public for objections,” said planning and building lecturer and Jerusalem affairs expert Qais Nasser.
Nasser outlined the details of plan based on documents he obtained. He said the project would cover 661,000 sq meters of land in historic Issawiyya and Tur, known as Karm al-Rumi, Ras al-Salm, Zaafarana, Maraj, Rabie, Dya and Khulla al-Jawz. The western end would be adjacent to the Hebrew University, and the eastern end would run along Highway 1, which leads to the Ma'ale Adumim settlement. It would also reach the Tur district to the south and Issawiyya and the Hebrew University to the north.
”The Israeli Jerusalem municipality presented the project to transform the region into an Israeli national park claiming that it is maintaining the historic Jewish values in the region belonging to the Second Temple,” Nasser said.
According to the project's documents, the Israeli nature authority will sign an agreement to operate the park with the Hebrew University.
The move came after claims that the area contains Jewish ”valueables” that belong to the second alleged temple.
”It is expected that the district planning and building committee in the Israeli Ministry of Interior will decide next Tuesday to accept the plan initially and take it to the public for objections,” said planning and building lecturer and Jerusalem affairs expert Qais Nasser.
Nasser outlined the details of plan based on documents he obtained. He said the project would cover 661,000 sq meters of land in historic Issawiyya and Tur, known as Karm al-Rumi, Ras al-Salm, Zaafarana, Maraj, Rabie, Dya and Khulla al-Jawz. The western end would be adjacent to the Hebrew University, and the eastern end would run along Highway 1, which leads to the Ma'ale Adumim settlement. It would also reach the Tur district to the south and Issawiyya and the Hebrew University to the north.
”The Israeli Jerusalem municipality presented the project to transform the region into an Israeli national park claiming that it is maintaining the historic Jewish values in the region belonging to the Second Temple,” Nasser said.
According to the project's documents, the Israeli nature authority will sign an agreement to operate the park with the Hebrew University.
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