Democratic Palestine : 15 (ص 13)
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Occupied Palestine February 1986
The Zionist authorities continue their oppressive policy against the
Palestinians under occupation, following the iron fist policy. The
month of February was no exception. There were increased attacks
on Palestinian civil and human rights, ranging from land confiscation
to outright murder, in an attempt to break the people’s will.
Land confiscation and house
demolition
Land confiscation is one aspect of
the Zionist policy of de facto annexing
the West Bank and Gaza Strip, and
emptying them of Palestinian citizens.
On February 3rd, the occupation
authorities informed several residents of
the village of Surrah, near Nablus, that
200 dunums of their land had been con-
fiscated. In the villages of Tal, Arraq and
Bourin, 400 dunums were confiscated
and fenced off with barbed wire.
On Feb.4th, the Zionist authorities
confiscated 4000 dunums of land
belonging to the Hanmi, Mlitat and
Nasasrah families of the village Beit
Foureek. In Baleen near Ramallah, the
villagers were told by the president of the
so-called Supreme Zionist Organizing
Council in the West Bank, that 15
dunums of their land had been confis-
cated in order to build a park.
In the area of Nabi Samuel, north of
Jerusalem, the occupation authorities
bulldozed a two-room house on Feb-
ruary 6th, on the pretext that it was built
without a permit. The house was owned
by Mohammad Abdullah Ellayan, a 37
year old resident of Beit Eksa and pro-
vider for a family of thirteen, who said
that it was bulldozed with all the furniture
inside in the family’s absence.
On February 12th, the citizens of Al
Khader and Artas villages renewed their
protest against an Israeli project to open
a road cutting through their land and that
of Beit Jala village. The size of the road
exceeds the needs of the area. It is plan-
ned to be about 200 meters wide. This
would mean extensive destruction of
crops, agricultural land and homes that
stand in the way of the road.
Destroying trees
On February 4th, Israeli radio
reported that the Green Patrol of the
Israeli Land Administration had
uprooted 70 olive trees planted by
Palestinians in Khirbat Samer, near
Jerusalem The next day. the same unit
uprooted 100 olive trees north of Bir Sabi
(Beersheba), alleging that they were
illegally planted on ‘state land’. In fact,
the Palestinians planted these trees to
assert their ownership of land which the
Zionist authorities were preparing to
confiscate. The destruction was clearly
intended to pressure them not to fight
the confiscation.
On February 9th, Israeli radio
reported an official decision which has
very serious implications in terms of
Zionist land confiscation and annexation
policy. The decision is to uproot all trees
in designated «forbidden areas» of pub-
lic and private land all along the line that
separates the part of Palestine occupied
in 1948 from the West Bank. This project
targets almost 10,000 dunums of land
and thousands of olive trees. It is part of
the overall plan of the occupation
authorities for destroying Palestinian
agriculture and changing the environ-
ment and demography. The current
drive began the first week of January,
when the Green Patrol chopped down
and uprooted 6000 almond and olive
trees (Some 20-50 years old) northwest
of Jerusalem.
In the Gaza Strip on February 11th,
the occupation forces began bulldozing
45 dunums of forests and 28 dunums of
planted trees owned by local Palestinian
citizens. According to the Jerusalem
newspaper A/ Quds, this land will be
added to Nissanet settlement which is
built on Palestinian land.
Settlement plans
Israeli newspapers reported gov-
ernment plans to build 13 new settle-
ments in the West Bank and Gaza Strip
in 1986. This was announced by Hous-
ing Minister David Levy. Finance Minis-
ter Yitzhak Modai pointed to the coalition
government's agreement to build 27
new settlements by the end of its term in
September 1988.
The Israeli newspaper A/ Hamish-
mar reported a secret Likud plan for in-
tensifying settlement when it heads the
government (starting September 1986).
The plan aims at housing 50,000 settlers
and building outposts similar to the one
existing in Al Khalil (Hebron where sett-
lers have taken over buildings in the
city’s center). The plan aims at ‘protect-
ing’ the land which was confiscated and
declared ‘state land’ by the previous
Likud government, amounting to almost
a third the size of the West Bank. The
plan envisions building 12 new settle-
ments, six while Peres heads the gov-
ernment and the other six after Shamir
takes the wheel.
Concerning Al Khalil, the Zionist
authorities are planning to expand Kiryat
Arba settlement in order to encircle the
city in preparation for annexing it.
On February 3rd, the Israeli news-
paper Davar reported that a new settle-
ment is being built on the southwestern
slope of Al Jalboa mountain, east of
Jenin. It is designed to house 500
families.
Judaization
In its February 15th edition, the
Zionist daily Haaretz reported that 40
rabbis met on February 13th, near the
western wall of Al Aqsa mosque. They
were led by the former chief rabbi
Shlomo Ghoren, and adopted his posi-
tion that Jews be allowed to enter the
area of Al Aqsa after washing and taking
off their shoes. The meeting was held on
the initiative of Rabbi Grishon Slomon,
president of the so-called Temple Mount
Faithful. It is worth mentioning that the
present Israeli chief rabbi, Mordechai
Eliaha, announced three weeks ago that
he supports building a temple in the
southeastern corner of the area of Al
Aqsa.
Four Palestinians murdered
In the city of Gaza, a 25 year old
Palestinian, Shaban Atlouf, was shot
and killed on February 15th, by Zionist
occupation soldiers. The incident began
when Atlouf refused to show his identifi-
cation card to a Zionist patrol which then
chased him and another man, and shot.
In the village of Silwad, near
Jerusalem, a young Palestinian man
died when a bomb exploded under his
feet as he was walking in a field. Zionist
settlers have before been known to plant
explosives near Palestinian villages.
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