Israeli war minister Naftali Bennett on Sunday announced that he gave the final approval to the plan to seize Palestinian land and property in the Old City of al-Khalil to build a path and an elevator to facilitate the entry of Jewish settlers to the Ibrahimi Mosque.
According to the Hebrew media Bennett gave the civil administration’s higher planning council an affiliate of the Israeli occupation army the green light to complete all procedures needed to confiscate private Palestinian property near the Ibrahimi Mosque for the project.
The war minister stressed the need to start carrying the project immediately and without delay after the plan received approval from the judicial authorities Israeli premier Benjamin Netanyahu and foreign minister Israel Katz.
