The Israeli occupation authority (IOA) approved on Thursday plans to build roads for Jewish settlers in the vicinity of east Jerusalem.
According to Israel’s Channel 7 the Israeli higher civil administration’s road subcommittee okayed the construction of Road 45 that will bypass the Qalandia refugee camp. Thousands of dunums will be seized for this road project.
This road will connect the Mekhmas checkpoint or junction on Road 60 and the illegal settlements of Migron and Kochav Ya’akov directly with Road 443 in the southwest of Ramallah and near the villages of northwest of Jerusalem.
In addition the committee also sanctioned the building of a road connecting Road 1 in western Jerusalem with Road 60 and the southern neighborhoods of the holy city.
Thousands of dunums of agricultural land will be appropriated for this road which will go around Sur Baher town in east Jerusalem.
Israeli far-right finance minister Bezliel Smotrich said that these new road projects are intended to facilitate the movement of Jewish settlers.
