The Israeli municipality in Occupied Jerusalem intends to prepare three settlement plans aimed at increasing the number of Jewish settlers in and around the Palestinian district of Sheikh Jarrah.
According to Israel Hayom newspaper on Saturday these plans include the construction of two apartment buildings for settlers and a commercial facility.
The so-called “Israel land fund” which is notorious for forging title deeds and property documents is believed to be behind these settler projects.
This land fund along with other settle organizations actively works on Judaizing the holy city and expelling its indigenous people the Jerusalemites from their homes.
Israel’s Judaization activities started in Silwan district and its nearby areas in 1996 when the Jewish neighborhood of Ma’ale Hazeitim emerged as a small settlement on the Mount of Olives in east Jerusalem inside the Arab neighborhood of Ras al-Amud.
