Investment in Settlement is on Top of the Israeli Occupation’s Priorities

Madeeha Araj
2018 / 4 / 28

Investment in Settlement is on Top of the Israeli Occupation s Priorities

By: Madeeha Araj,

Facts on the ground showed that Israel s investment in the occupied West Bank is much more than the one inside the occupied 1948 borders. Within this context, the Israeli government allocated NIS 417,000,000 for developing settlements in the Dead Sea area, in order to attract more settlers, expand the settlements outside the Green Line and judaize it.

According to the above information, the budget is not allocated to save the Dead Sea drought, but to strengthen and support the settlement outside the Green Line, within the so-called "Regional Council Megillot north of the Dead Sea, which means expansion under the slogan of development of tourism and maintenance of road no. 90.

In turn, Head of the Tamar Regional Council and a member of Kibbutz Ein Gedi, Dov Latinov, said the decision will serve as a lifeline to save the Dead Sea and to further develop the settlements there, as the sea is an irreplaceable national treasure," after the government decision.

The Jordan Valley region is considered part of the Afro-Asian crater pit, one of the lowest in the world, located at a low of about 380 m below sea level. The Palestinian Jordan Valley stretches along the eastern side of the West Bank from Ein Gedi (the Dead Sea) southward to the so-called "Tal Makhkhoz" on the borders of Bisan northward inside the Green Line. And from the Jordan River in the east to the eastern slopes of the West Bank of the Jordan Valley in the west. This area accounts for 28.5% of the West Bank 2,400 sq km. Settlers profits through investment in the northern Jordan Valley amount to -$- 650,000,000. annually.

At the same time, the attacks and violations of the "pay the price gangs" against the Palestinians and their properties escalated under the protection of the occupation government, and silent encouragement from the American administration during the past week. Those terrorist groups carried out several attacks, including attacking the eastern village of Luban, attacking citizens property and assaulted farmers from the village of Madma during the plowing of their land and forced them to leave using tear gas bombs. Moreover, assaulted the villagers of Al-Tawana in Mafassar Yatta, threw rocks at them, attacking a bus at a school in Yatta, resulted in injuring 13-year-old Ahmed Abu Aram, as well as assaulting students in schools in the Salameh neighborhood in the Old City of Hebron, puncturing 45 vehicles in the village of Burqa east of Ramallah, and cutting down about 100 olive fruitful trees in the village of Burin south of Nablus and 15 others in the Urief village.

For their part, settlers launched a campaign on the "Facebook" calling for the killing of Palestinians and slaughter and burn them, calling hospitals maternity sections to cut heads of the recently born babies recently, another said, "we must revenge for every Jew injured´-or-killed.

Within the context, the occupation attorney general decided to abandon the confessions of the perpetrators of the crime of burning the family of Duabsha, in the village of Duma, south of the city of Nablus, 2 years ago under the pretext that the confessions are illegal because they are obtained in an unusual ways. Moreover, the Israeli Kern Keimet Fund decided not to allow the setting up a memorial of its son Moh d Abu Khudair, who was killed after he was burned alive in a crime committed by 3 settlers in July 2014, in a forest around Jerusalem.

On the other hand, the 3rd annual report of the Palestinian Center for Israeli Studies (MADAR), on the "Register of racist and supportive laws for the occupation and settlement," has been escalated and even accelerated by the Israeli right to enact legislation aimed at consecrating Israeli control of as much of the West Bank as possible. During the 3 years of the parliamentary mandate of the Knesset, 185 laws were passed, including 54 laws that were passed´-or-entered into legislation. This clearly implies the involvement of the Knesset in imposing racist legislation aimed at restricting Palestinian citizens and controlling their land and property. Pal Legislation on the Judaization of Jerusalem and legislation on settlement expansion since the beginning of the Knesset s 20 mandate, it has dealt with 43 laws for the -dir-ect and in-dir-ect annexation of the occupied West Bank´-or-settlements.

The most important laws that have finally been passed are the Land Grab and Land Privileges Law, the Law for the Consolidation of Jerusalem, the Israeli Higher Education Law on Settlements Institutes, the University in Ariel, and 2 other academic colleges.

The National Bureau said the positions of US officials helped radicalizing the behavior of Israelis in general and settlers in particular, it pointed out that the new escalation in the attacks and violations of the terrorist "paying the price gangs" would not have continued seriously in the last few days and weeks.




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