Israeli settlement always dominates the scene at every Israeli Knesset elections

By: Madeeha Al-A’raj

The National Bureau for defending land and resisting settlements ( nbprs ) stated in its latest weekly report that , as the Israeli general elections draw near, the higher the pace of using colonial settlements as a platform to exert pressure on both the government and the opposition to raise the ceiling of pledges and promises to accelerate and expand construction in the colonial settlements on the one hand, and to legitimize the outposts established by terrorist cells on the other hand. Benny Gantz and Benjamin Netanyahu are to faces for a coin. The former pledges, as we indicated in the previous weekly report, to the settler leaders, during a meeting with a delegation of them, that he intends to approve plans to build hundreds of settlement units in the settlements in the near period ahead of the Knesset elections, while the second t sponsor settlement associations and sign a document in which he pledges to the settlers to respond to their demands and accelerate the pace of construction in the settlements.
Within the context, the “Reboniot” settlement association collected the signatures of 55 members of Knesset from the opposition parties in the Israeli right, led by former Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and with him the current Minister of Interior Ayelet Shaked, in which the signatories commit themselves to work after the Israeli general elections to expand settlement construction in occupied West Bank.

On the other hand, the settlement lobby that pressures on the Israeli government to not ratify the cultural agreement with the European -union- because of its exclusion from settlements. Significant damage to any Israeli attempt to reach agreements with the European -union- in the future. The Israeli government was scheduled to ratify this agreement last week.
Because of the agreement s exception to the settlements, the alternative prime minister, Naftali Bennett, opposed ratifying the agreement at the request of Interior Minister Ayelet Shaked, and used the veto power granted to him under the coalition agreements. This agreement allows Israeli producers, in the fields of cinema, literature and the arts, the possibility of receiving grants from the European -union- in amounts amounting to hundreds of millions of euros.

Moreover, settlement activities, Judaizing measures and attempts to obliterate the true identity of Jerusalem continue. Minister of ‘Jerusalem Affairs’ Ze ev Elkin recently decided to allocate NIS 2.5 million to ‘renovate and save’ a historic street located in the Old City of occupied Jerusalem, named Cardo Street.
It is subjected to non-stop Judaizing in order to erase its features and falsify the ancient history of the Holy City, after cracks appeared in it due to excavations and tunnels conducted by the “Elad” settlement association under the neighborhoods of the Old City, especially in the southern area of the Moroccan Gate and the Umayyad Palaces, where a special engineering report submitted to the Israeli Ministry of Jerusalem Affairs and Heritage revealed that there is a -dir-ect danger of the collapse of the street, which is visited by hundreds of thousands of Jews and foreign tourists every year.
List of Israeli Assaults over the Last Week Documented by the National Bureau:
Jerusalem:
• Storming the Sheikh Jarrah Neighborhood in Jerusalem and closed all its’ entrances.
• Ben Gvir and dozens of settlers stormed the Neighborhood too, and carried out incursions into the courtyards of the Al-Aqsa Mosque with the protection of the Israeli occupation soldiers.
Hebron:
• Storming the village of Al--dir-at in Masafer Yatta and notified of the demolition of 4 houses, 3 of which are inhabited. They also stormed the village of Irfaiya and handed demolition notices of 4 inhabited houses..
• Demolishing a house in Khallet al-Aida near Jabal Jawhar in the southern part of the city of Hebron, and a house and two concrete warehouses on an area of 150 square meters there.
• Storming the Old City of Hebron, performed a provocative march, and they roamed its streets and alleys, chanting racist slogans, protected by the occupation forces, which obstructed the passage of citizens in the town s markets.
• Thousands of Jewish settlers invaded the Ibrahimi Mosque in Hebron, and held a concert inside its corridors. They performed Talmudic rituals under the pretext of celebrating the so-called ‘Hebrew New Year".
Bethlehem:
• Uprooting 40 olive seedlings in the Al-Khader town located in the Bakush area adjacent to bypass road n. 60.
• Notification to demolish an inhabited house in the town of Al-Khader, which has an area of 120m2, located in the Abu Soud area, west of the town, under the pretext of not having a permit.
Ramallah:
• Demolishing a house belonging to the Al-Mahani family, as well as 5 agricultural facilities, “brakes”, in the Bedouin ‘Siq Valley’, near the village of Ramon, east of Ramallah. Equipment and materials were confiscated.
• Attacking vehicles of citizens at the northern entrance of Al-Bireh, thrown stones at a house near the military checkpoint that resulted in damaging a number of house s windows.
• An armed attack on vehicles on the Ramallah-Nablus road, in the ‘Ayoun Al Haramiya’ area, caused a traffic jam.
Salfeet:
• Cutting down olive trees in the Bruqin town, west of Salfeet in the ‘Al-Sheyab area’ north of the town.
• Seizing a bulldozer in the town of Qarawat Bani Hassan, west of Salfeet. It was working to reclaim Ghazi Rayan s lands, on the northern side of the town, and threatened the citizens to demolish their homes built in that area.
Jordan Valley:
• Seizing a farm tractor while working in the Al Farisiyah area.
• Damaging agricultural greenhouses near the entrance of the village, demolished a residential tent, and destroyed a solar cell unit, damaged water tanks, a solar cell unit, 4 water tanks, and many of the citizens’ properties.

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