The Israeli occupation authority (IOA) have earmarked millions of Shekels to establish a new settler project in Silwan town east of Occupied Jerusalem.
In cooperation with pro-settler groups the project will be inaugurated on Wednesday under the name of the “Jewish Yemenite heritage center” as part of systematic steps aimed at Judaizing the town of Silwan south of the Aqsa Mosque.
A opening ceremony will be held at the site under the watch of heavy security this Wednesday.
The Hilweh Information Center and Batn al-Hawa Committee in Silwan town said in a joint statement on Saturday that the IOA allocated about 4.5 million shekels for this new Israeli settler project.
According to the center and the committee the IOA claim that the property of Abu Nab in Batn al-Hawa area of Silwan was used as a synagogue in the 19th century by Yemeni Jews and that they demanded a Palestinian family to evacuate it since 2004.
Their statement mentioned that the Israeli authorities already opened a Jewish synagogue in August 2017 in Abu Nab area in the presence of Israeli ministers and representatives from settlement associations.
The center and the committee affirmed that Yemeni Jews lived in the Silwan neighborhood as refugees for a period no longer than 50 years after they were welcomed by Palestinian residents in the 19th century.
The Jewish Yemenite heritage center will be established on more than five dunums of land in Batn al-Hawa area in Silwan under the pretext that it belongs to Jew emigrants from Yemen who came to Jerusalem in 1881.
Israeli settlement associations have been gradually seizing real estate in east Jerusalem especially in the Old City by claiming ownership of lands and homes in smaller parts or by purchasing property from Palestinian residents through straw buyers.
