A Palestinian report on Saturday warned of an Israeli plan to build 1000 settler units on lands annexed from the villages of at-Tur Anata Eizariya and Abu Dis in the area known as “E1” in east Jerusalem.
The plan is aimed at expanding the borders of Occupied Jerusalem as part of what Israel calls the “greater Jerusalem” project and its intents to annex large areas of the occupied Palestinian territories.
The report which was issued by the National Bureau for Defending Land (an affiliate of the Palestine Liberation Organization) said that the project if implemented would completely close off the eastern area of Jerusalem encircle Anata at-Tur and Hizma with settler units and block the possibility of any future Palestinian urban expansion towards the east.
It also said that this Israeli project would connect all the illegal settlements in the eastern area and outside the Israeli municipal borders in Jerusalem with the settlements within the municipal boundaries of Moshe Leon and turn the Palestinian villages and districts in this area into besieged ghettos.
The report pointed out that the Israeli occupation authority might annex wide areas of the West Bank to the new municipal boundaries of greater Jerusalem.
