The Israeli occupation authority (IOA) in Jerusalem has announced its intent to confiscate a plot of land in Wadi Rababa neighborhood in Silwan district south of the Aqsa Mosque to use it as a Jewish cemetery.
According to the Wadi Hilweh Information Center the IOA issued a decision to seize over one and a half dunums of land to use it for the burial of Jewish settlers.
The IOA gave the Jerusalemite citizens who would be affected by its decision two weeks to file an objection with Israeli courts.
The Wadi-Hilweh Center affirmed that Israel’s nature and parks authority and antiquities authority had started targeting this piece of land several years ago through creating fake graves on it.
The Center added that Wadi Rababa neighborhood contains vast areas of Palestinian land but the local owners are prevented by the IOA from building homes or any structures on their lands or even cultivating them.
Such Israeli step is believed to be part of a plan to carry out a cluster of biblical projects for Jewish settlers that surround and lead to the Aqsa Mosque and the Old City of Jerusalem.
