In the mountainous region between the West Bank city of Ramallah and the city of Jerusalem, the village of Nabi Samuel is located, without borders, because the village whose mosque was built by Al-Zahir Baybars is absent in the presence of past Israeli judicious plans.
The occupation’s tentacles and settlement projects, which bite the village’s religious and archaeological lands and monuments, have turned everything they own into Jewish heritage, to absent borders and obscure identity, and the original villagers remain vulnerable to displacement and displacement.
To complete the Judaization department within the village of Nabi Samuel, the Supreme Council for Environmental Quality Planning in the occupation government announced on Saturday, June 13, that 110 dunums of the lands of the village of Nabi Samuel were considered a Jewish archaeological site, and included them for the development of the Jewish National National Park, which covers an area of 3500 acres, It is located on the lands of the Prophet Samuel, and the neighboring Palestinian villages.
Demolition and displacement campaigns
The voracity of the Israeli annexation and appropriation did not stop inside the village of Nabi Samuel, whose occupation made its borders inside the settlements, and the apartheid wall in Jerusalem and the West Bank, where during the past years a third of its 4,500 dunums of land was confiscated within the policy of expropriation and settlement expansion.
The head of the village council in the village of Nabi Samuel, Amir Obaid: “The lands of the village of Nabi Samuel were annexed to the interests of the settlements, and they became inside the Apartheid Wall, which cut them off from all Palestinian cities completely, and it has no borders of its own, as it currently does not follow the borders of the city of Jerusalem despite It is affiliated with it historically, and it is not located in the vicinity of West Bank cities, despite its proximity to the city of Ramallah.
It shows that, since its occupation in 1967, the village of Nabi Samuel has been subjected to campaigns of demolition, displacement, and siege, while the occupation demolished a large part of it in 1971, under the pretext of saving rare monuments, so that the original inhabitants resided next to the mosque from that time until the moment.
The Speaker of the Village Council of the Prophet Samuel, in his interview with "Emirates Today", indicates that the occupation besieges the village of Nabi Samuel, which rises 890 meters above sea level from all directions, through four settlements that perch on its lands, namely, Pisgat, Ramot Alon, and Nabi Samuil, Shmuel, while setting up a military barrier at its entrance, is called the Jibb Barrier, adjacent to the towns of Jeb and Petunia, east of Ramallah, which is reinforced with iron gates, checkpoints, and military barracks for Israeli soldiers.
According to Ebeid, 350 Palestinians now live in the village of Al-Nabi Samuel, all of whom bear the green Palestinian identity, and reside within the vicinity of the city of Ramallah, and without 50 people who hold only the Jerusalem identity, due to the Israeli procedures and conditions imposed on building new homes, or restoring Al-Qadima, which forced dozens of citizens to forcibly desert them and take refuge in neighboring towns and villages in the West Bank.
Falsifying facts
The mosque area of the Prophet Samuel is one of the Islamic landmarks that fall victim to Judaization, after the conversion of the first floor to a synagogue, as well as the occupation rigging the identity of the mosque gradually, and exploiting the archaeological excavations that do not stop in the Palestinian village.
Khalil Tafkaji, director of the Maps and Geographic Information Systems Department at the Arab Studies Association, confirms that the Supreme Planning Council for the Environmental Quality Subcommittee in the occupation government announced the deposit of the detailed plan number «3/107/51», on an area of 110 dunums The Prophet Samuel protectorate, located on an area of 3,500 dunums, on the lands of the Bedouin and Beit Iksa villages, adjacent to the Prophet Samuel, which was confiscated in 1995.
The Jewish National Park project, according to Tafkaji, aims to transform the site of the village, including the Prophet Samuel Mosque, into public tourism and Israeli religious tourism, along with the restriction of construction and archaeological site identification, and the development of the area that was demolished in 1972 around the Prophet Samuel Mosque.
He notes that the seizure of an area of 3,500 dunums of the National Park reinforces the Israeli biblical political narrative, which falsifies the facts of the historic place and its features, and tries to impart a Jewish character instead of the original Islamic narration.
It indicates that the national park or nature reserve, as the occupation claims, aims to attract religious Jewish visitors and foreign tourists, to provide explanations of the holy site based on Jewish sources.
The lands of the village of Nabi Samuel were annexed to the settlements, and they became inside the Apartheid Wall, which completely cut them off from all Palestinian cities, and became without borders.
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