Yesterday, the Palestinian Ministry of Health announced the martyrdom of the young Yusef Zaatara (33 years), after the Israeli occupation forces fired live bullets towards him, near Bab Al-Asbat in the Old City of occupied Jerusalem, and the occupation forces stormed the Al-Sala'a neighborhood in the town of Jabal Al-Mukaber, south of occupied Jerusalem, the birthplace of the martyr. Za'atara, raided his house and interrogated his family, then arrested his father and brothers, and settlers fenced off vast areas of pastoral lands in the northern Jordan Valley.
The Occupation Forces tightened their military measures in the vicinity of Bab Al-Asbat, and closed all doors leading to the Old City, and the Israeli police claimed that the young man (who is the father of three children) tried to carry out a stabbing attack in the Old City of Jerusalem.
In addition, yesterday, settlers fenced off vast areas of pastoral lands in the northern Jordan Valley.
The human rights activist, Aref Daraghmeh, told the Palestinian News Agency (WAFA) that the settlers had put up fences around areas of pastoral lands east of Khallet Makhoul, and north of Khirbet Samra in the Jordan Valley.
Daraghmeh added that settlers prevented Palestinian shepherds from entering these lands completely.
Armed settlers yesterday attacked livestock herders while they were on their lands in the village of Al-Tuwanah, in the town of Yatta, south of Hebron. The coordinator of the “Challenge and Resilience” committee in the south of Hebron, and the traveler of Yatta, Fouad Al-Amor, told Wafa that the settlers attacked the herdsmen and threw rocks at them, amid Protection from the occupation army.
The coordinator of the People's Committees to resist the wall and settlement in the south of Hebron, Ratib Jabour, said that the practices of settlers supported by the occupation forces aim to seize the lands of Palestinian citizens, and expand the settlement area in the villages and ruins of southern Hebron, by forcing them to leave and leave the lands they inherited from their parents. And they live in it for decades.
The weekly report, prepared by the National Office for the Defense of the Earth and Resistance to Settlement, of the Palestine Liberation Organization, addressed the settlement project that the Israeli occupation authorities intend to implement on the land of Qalandia Airport, north of occupied Jerusalem.
The report, issued yesterday, that the Ministry of Housing in the occupation government has begun preparing plans to build a new settlement on the airport’s lands, up to the annexation and expansion wall, which will be a watershed between the new settlement and the Palestinian areas in the Jerusalem area to completely isolate it.
According to the report, the project is based on about 1,200 acres, to include more than 6000 housing units, in addition to commercial centers with an area of 300 thousand square meters, and 45 thousand square meters will be allocated to operating areas, hotel, water tanks, and other facilities.
He added that the occupation authorities have placed red flags on 21 Palestinian homes that have been in place for many years, which will be demolished, in preparation for establishing parts of the settlement project on top of them. The ownership of the lands on which these houses are located will also be taken away to include this settlement project.
He added that the project includes more than 6000 settlement units, but the development plan for it for the year 2030 will raise the number to 11 thousand settlement units within a few years, as this settlement will form a huge settlement bloc, similar to "Ma'aleh Adumim" east of the city, and the assembly The settlement settlement "Kfar Etzion" in the south.
In the context of his campaign for the Knesset elections in the second of next March, the head of the occupation government, Benjamin Netanyahu, announced plans to build 5,200 new housing units in East Jerusalem, 2,200 of which are in the Har Homa settlement, located on the lands of Jabal Abu Ghneim, south of Jerusalem, and 3,000 settlement units in the settlement. Givat Hamtus on the lands of the town of Beit Safafa.
21 Palestinian homes marked with occupation by red lights, in preparation for demolishing them for a settlement project.