UAE Accused of Selling Palestinian Lands to Settlers
AL-QUDS (Dispatches) – The United Arab Emirates (UAE) has taken part in selling properties in East al-Quds to Zionist settlers, the Palestinian website Al-Qastal reported.
"The UAE is involved in selling three properties to settlers in Batn al-Hawa neighborhood in the Silwan area in East Jerusalem (al-Quds),” Al-Qastal quoted informed Palestinian sources.
The sources said that "documents proving the involvement of the UAE and Palestinian figures in selling real estate in Silwan will be revealed later”.
At dawn on Thursday, groups of settlers reportedly managed to seize three buildings and a plot of land in Batn al-Hawa neighborhood, under the protection of the regime’s police, after the site was handed to settler associations.
Meanwhile, families from the town of Silwan, just outside of occupied East al-Quds, held a meeting on Thursday in which they stressed the necessity of boycotting "real estate looters” cooperating with settler associations. The boycott includes refraining from attending their events, and from inviting them to national or family events, and imposing a complete and comprehensive boycott against them and their families.
More Illegal Settler Units
In another development, Zionist regime authorities gave the green light for the construction of hundreds of illegal settler units in the occupied East al-Quds in the first such measure since U.S. President Joe Biden assumed office in late January.
The proposed 540 housing units are to be built in the Palestinian neighborhoods of Beit Safafa and Sharafat, and create territorial continuity between the two major settlements of Har Homa and Givat Hamatos south of East al-Quds, Israeli English-language newspaper Haaretz reported.
The Ramallah-based Palestinian Authority condemned the decision by the regime, with presidential spokesman Nabil Abu Rudeineh saying in a statement that the move is "condemned and rejected.”
"It violates all United Nations resolutions that condemn settlements, especially Resolution 2334 which affirmed that all forms of settlements on Palestinian lands are illegal,” Abu Rudeineh said.
President Biden had claimed his administration would restore the U.S. policy of opposing settlement expansion in the occupied Palestinian territories.
His predecessor Donald Trump recognized al-Quds as the so-called capital of the Zionist regime in December 2017 and announced in November 2019 that his administration no longer considered settlement construction in the occupied West Bank a violation of international law.
More than 600,000 Zionists live in over 230 settlements built since the 1967 occupation of the Palestinian territories of the West Bank and East al-Quds.
"The UAE is involved in selling three properties to settlers in Batn al-Hawa neighborhood in the Silwan area in East Jerusalem (al-Quds),” Al-Qastal quoted informed Palestinian sources.
The sources said that "documents proving the involvement of the UAE and Palestinian figures in selling real estate in Silwan will be revealed later”.
At dawn on Thursday, groups of settlers reportedly managed to seize three buildings and a plot of land in Batn al-Hawa neighborhood, under the protection of the regime’s police, after the site was handed to settler associations.
Meanwhile, families from the town of Silwan, just outside of occupied East al-Quds, held a meeting on Thursday in which they stressed the necessity of boycotting "real estate looters” cooperating with settler associations. The boycott includes refraining from attending their events, and from inviting them to national or family events, and imposing a complete and comprehensive boycott against them and their families.
More Illegal Settler Units
In another development, Zionist regime authorities gave the green light for the construction of hundreds of illegal settler units in the occupied East al-Quds in the first such measure since U.S. President Joe Biden assumed office in late January.
The proposed 540 housing units are to be built in the Palestinian neighborhoods of Beit Safafa and Sharafat, and create territorial continuity between the two major settlements of Har Homa and Givat Hamatos south of East al-Quds, Israeli English-language newspaper Haaretz reported.
The Ramallah-based Palestinian Authority condemned the decision by the regime, with presidential spokesman Nabil Abu Rudeineh saying in a statement that the move is "condemned and rejected.”
"It violates all United Nations resolutions that condemn settlements, especially Resolution 2334 which affirmed that all forms of settlements on Palestinian lands are illegal,” Abu Rudeineh said.
President Biden had claimed his administration would restore the U.S. policy of opposing settlement expansion in the occupied Palestinian territories.
His predecessor Donald Trump recognized al-Quds as the so-called capital of the Zionist regime in December 2017 and announced in November 2019 that his administration no longer considered settlement construction in the occupied West Bank a violation of international law.
More than 600,000 Zionists live in over 230 settlements built since the 1967 occupation of the Palestinian territories of the West Bank and East al-Quds.