The Housing Ministry is pushing forward with the construction of more than 1,000 residential units in East Jerusalem's Har Homa neighborhood on land held by "absentee" Palestinians from the Bethlehem area. The move is in violation of both an instruction from the attorney general to stop applying the absentee law in East Jerusalem and explicit promises to the U.S. not to apply that law in the capital's eastern quarters.
The new neighborhood is planned for east of the already-constructed Har Homa, in close proximity to Beit Sahur and Bethlehem. If built, it would isolate Bethlehem completely from the Palestinian neighborhoods south of Jerusalem.
The land is farmland owned by about 600 Beit Sahur families who worked the plots until the construction of the separation fence in the area.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/941798.html
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Build a separation wall, prevent Palestinian access to their lands, declare them absentees and steal the land
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The new neighborhood is planned for east of the already-constructed Har Homa, in close proximity to Beit Sahur and Bethlehem. If built, it would isolate Bethlehem completely from the Palestinian neighborhoods south of Jerusalem.
The land is farmland owned by about 600 Beit Sahur families who worked the plots until the construction of the separation fence in the area.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/941798.html
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Build a separation wall, prevent Palestinian access to their lands, declare them absentees and steal the land
Business as usual
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