At the beginning of each new day, 45,000 Palestinians from the town of Silwan, south of the Al-Aqsa Mosque, wake up to a new calamity threatening their presence in the Holy City. The Judaization procedures and plans to seize their property continue unceasingly, sometimes they receive demolition notices and sometimes confiscate their land in favor of settlement projects And Judaization, in addition to the ongoing excavation operations under the sanctuaries and houses of the residents, Velawan is the southern edge of the Al-Aqsa Mosque.

All of these procedures are supervised by the Elad settlement association, which is authorized by the Israeli government to implement the plans it approves. It supervises 70 outposts in Silwan, the 80 outposts, most of which are located in the Wadi Hilweh neighborhood of Silwan.

Creation

The founding of the Elad Association was founded in 1986 by the settler David Bari, an abbreviation of the Hebrew phrase "El Ir David", meaning "Towards the City of David." The association called itself this name based on biblical texts and the claim that Jerusalem is the city of the Prophet Peace be upon him.

"The Elad Association has a set of goals, most notably the implantation of the idea of ​​the Jerusalem basin and the alleged structure within successive Jewish generations," says Fakhri Abu-Yab, a member of the committee for the defense of the people of Silwan. "They are increasingly seeking to achieve these goals by controlling Palestinian homes and leaking their property In the interest of establishing settlement outposts in the heart of Palestinian neighborhoods and housing them with settlers. " He notes that the Elad settlement association is active in the town of Silwan, where Israeli excavations are funded in a number of areas, as well as control of Palestinian land and homes, either by money or by legal fraud. According to Abubaidab, the association now controls the management of three archaeological sites in Silwan, known to Jews as "national parks", the area called the "City of David" or "Ir David" and the Umayyad palaces, .

Speaking to Emirates Today, Aboudiab notes that Elad has a strong relationship with the Israeli government, where cooperation takes a variety of forms, from receiving funding from official bodies, ignoring any legal irregularities of the association, or coordinating tours for schoolchildren And soldiers of the occupation, to publish the biblical stories, as well as management of archaeological sites in Silwan.

Hazardous projects

The main role of the Elad Association lies primarily with three Israeli governmental bodies, the Israel Antiquities Authority, the Parks and Nature Authority, and the Jewish Quarter Development Company, in order to implement all its plans within Silwan.

Among the most dangerous projects implemented by the Elad Association for the benefit of the official Israeli authorities, the Israeli Knesset allowed a law allowing settlement construction in land designated as national parks. Under this law, the Society received the right to dispose of green areas and parks in Silwan. Called "The City of David" in Silwan, which is supervised and implemented by the Elad settlement organization.

According to the law, Khaled al-Zir will remain in Silwan without shelter for his eight-member family after the bulldozers demolished his house and prevented him from living in an old cave his family had inhabited 58 years ago. Reclaiming a small area in his family's land to live in.

My daughter Rasha (10 years old) always talks to me that she and her siblings are alone at the lunch table, and a room they share together, and her room was looking out. On the Al-Aqsa Mosque directly ».

"I lived in a modest house, not more than 60 square meters in size, with great happiness and warmth that the family did not forget. But the claws of the occupation came from it in the early hours of the morning, and I scattered the happiness, uprooted it, and after the demolition of my house, A cave located under the mountain, which carries the rubble of my house, and when I started to restore it, the occupation authorities brought down and destroyed what was repaired, and the bad weather and water leaking from the cave rocks, I moved to live in my parents' house. "

Mandatory control

Elad settlement association, which is directly responsible for settlement in public and archaeological sites in Jerusalem, which presented the specifications of construction projects for settlers on green areas in the national park in Silwan, according to Director of Wadi Hilweh Information Center - Silwan Jawad Siam.

Siyam asserts that the new law came under the pressure of the Elad Association, which has put its weight into enacting a law that enables it to build on land designated by the Government of Israel as "national parks." This law enables it to achieve its goals of full control of the town of Silwan, , As well as its assistance in encircling the southern wall of Jerusalem and the Al-Aqsa Mosque, the fact that Silwan is the southern border of them.

"The mere seizure of Arab houses does not enable settlement associations to cause a demographic imbalance," he says. "The Elad Society should have controlled and settled large tracts of land and has already enacted this law."

The Elad settlement association is directly responsible for settlement in public and archaeological sites in Jerusalem, which presented specifications for construction projects for settlers on green spaces in the "National Park" in Silwan.