The Hebron Reconstruction Committee has warned of an Israeli plan to appropriate 70 Palestinian homes in the heart of al-Khalil City and transfer their ownership to Jewish settlers.
“Several Israeli practices portend a real danger threatening the Old City of al-Khalil which may make the situation there a catastrophe” head of the committee Imad Hamdan said in a statement on Sunday.
Hamdan warned that the Israeli occupation authority (IOA) seeks with all its might to impose its control over the Old City of al-Khalil.
He affirmed that there were remarks made by Israeli officials from the right-wing government that they would work to seize about 70 Palestinian buildings in the Old City of al-Khalil and transfer them to the Israeli custodian of absentee property before handing them over to settlers.
The Palestinian official said that the Palestinian authorities in the city would go to Israeli courts to file objections against the Israeli plan.
In a separate statement the Hebron Reconstruction Committee said that the IOA refuses to receive complaints from Palestinian citizens whose property is exposed to settler attacks in the Old City of al-Khalil.
The committee explained that Tawfiq Arafa goes daily to an Israeli police station to file a complaint against settlers after they attack his real estate in the Old City of al-Khalil but they refuse to register his complaint.
