It nibbles the lands of its inhabitants and isolates it from Palestinian neighborhoods and villages
Towns north of Jerusalem are under the grip of the “45” settlement road
The scheme connects the settlements of the West Bank and Jerusalem as one unit.
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The occupation is building 45th Street in private Palestinian land.
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The project includes the construction of a tunnel under the Qalandia checkpoint.
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“Kafr Aqab, Jaba’, Qalandia, Al-Ram, Mikhmas, and Barqa” are all Palestinian villages and towns, located north of the city of Al-Quds Al-Sharif. And between Jerusalem and Palestinian neighborhoods and towns on the other hand.
Meanwhile, the settlement bypass road No. 45, which passes through villages and towns north of Jerusalem, will deprive its residents of thousands of dunums of their lands and properties. The road will confiscate and swallow large areas of Palestinian lands in these Jerusalem villages.
The occupation forces began constructing a settlement bypass road No. 45 on private Palestinian lands north of Al-Quds Al-Sharif, to serve the settlers and facilitate their movement between the settlements perched on the lands of towns and neighborhoods in the Holy City and the occupied West Bank.
creepy combine
The settlement bypass street project has met with widespread protest, given its great dangers to the Palestinians in the city of Jerusalem and the West Bank. For the Israeli human rights planning rights), detailed objections in the occupation courts, against Bypass Street No. (45).
Lawyer Alaa Mahajna explains in an exclusive interview with Emirates Today, that the scheme is one of the parts of the general settlement project that the occupation plans openly in front of the international community, as the settlement street reinforces the policy of creeping annexation, to link the settlements of the West Bank and the Holy City of Jerusalem with the Israeli cities, to become a geographical unit one.
He points out that the occupation issued its plan to build Road (45) on private Palestinian land, as it is limited to the movement of settlers from the West Bank and Jerusalem towards the cities of the occupation.
Mahajna goes on to say: "This matter does not comply with Israeli law, as the occupier cannot confiscate private lands to serve settlers only, and if the confiscation is accepted, it must serve the Palestinian side."
He added that "the settlement road does not serve the Palestinians in any way, as there are no entrances or exits for it towards Palestinian villages and towns."
The lawyer of the six Jerusalemite villages and towns states that the occupation plan consists of a tunnel and a large street, to confiscate (900) dunams of Palestinian land in those towns and villages of Jerusalem.
Mahajna continues: “The main objective of the settlement project is to link the settlements located in the depth of the West Bank with Israeli cities, from the (60) bypass road, to Street (433) known as the Apartheid Street, through the construction of a tunnel under the Qalandia checkpoint north of Jerusalem. Sharif.”
He points out that Road No. 45 separates the Holy City of Jerusalem from the occupied West Bank, cuts off the cities of the West Bank, and turns them into small ghettos, surrounded by settlements and bypass streets, in addition to restricting their movement and disrupting their lives, exacerbating their daily suffering.
isolate and divide
According to the studies of the Palestinian Applied Research Institute (ARIJ), the plan for the construction of settlement road No. 45 dates back to 1996 and 1997, when its goal was to cut off the road for Palestinians in the towns and neighborhoods of Jerusalem from their lands at the time.
It was planned that Road (45) would isolate vast areas of Palestinian land with a minimum number of residents, but with the implementation of the apartheid wall plan, the road became a major factor in perpetuating the occupation’s plan to isolate Palestinian land and use it later in settlement expansion, and the establishment of new settlement neighborhoods .
On the other hand, the Director of the Map Department at the Arab Studies Association, Khalil Al-Tafkaji, points out that the scheme for Street (45) was put forward in 1983, within Military Order No. (50) for roads, with the aim of dividing the West Bank longitudinally from north to south, and transversely From east to west.
It shows that the occupation is currently working on building an infrastructure by building tunnels to connect settlements, and establishing a new settlement in the Qalandia Airport area north of Jerusalem, which will increase the number of settlers and facilitate their movement.
The Director of the Map Department at the Arab Studies Association says: “The settlement bypass road No. 45 aims to establish (Greater Jerusalem), according to the Israeli concept, which means linking all settlements located in the West Bank to the city of Al-Quds Al-Sharif, which is equivalent to (10%) ) from the area of West Bank cities, with the aim of completely separating the Holy City from the West Bank, and establishing the largest Israeli settlement in this area, consisting of (9,000) settlement units.
He added that “one part of the settlement street, which is 100 meters wide in both directions, divides the central Palestinian coast towards north Jerusalem, all the way to the Palestinian Jordan Valley.
Demographically speaking, the bypass settlement project aims to end the Kafr Aqab and Semiramis areas, and completely separate them from the city of Al-Quds Al-Sharif. In the south, it includes the cities of Jerusalem, Bethlehem, and Hebron.
The main objective of the settlement project is to link the settlements located in the depth of the West Bank with Israeli cities, from the (60) bypass road, to the (433) road known as the Apartheid Street, through the construction of a tunnel under the Qalandia checkpoint, north of Jerusalem.
The settlement street (45) aims to establish “Greater Jerusalem”, according to Israel, which means linking all settlements located in the West Bank to the city of Jerusalem, which is equivalent to (10%) of the area of the West Bank, with the aim of completely separating the Holy City from the West Bank.
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