Palestinians experienced the bloodiest and most brutal year of all time in 2022. They witnessed an unprecedented increase in the number of settlers, settlement expansion, martyrs, and confiscation of lands, especially in jerusalem. The occupation’s relentless endeavours aim at uprooting the palestinians in jerusalem by controlling more palestinian lands. They try to impose facts on the ground by building and expanding settlements and legitimizing building settlements, especially in jerusalem.
Jerusalem is like no other city in palestine. Israel’s ideology puts more greed in jerusalem than any other city in palestine. The focus on jerusalem pictures a conflict between two histories, two geographies and two very different identities. It includes the palestinian arab native and the trespassing zionist. Accordingly, israel’s ideology directs at eliminating the cultural landmarks of the capital or the holy city. In addition, it aims to fake history aimed at reshaping the city with its exclusive jewish output. They make it after erasing the arab historical identity and its expression of christian and islamic diversity. Consequently, taking into consideration all intense practices to uproot the palestinians in jerusalem.
Geographical and demographical judaization
Israel’s jewdization ideology plan started its first steps in jerusalem by initially cutting off jerusalem from its perimeter. Their point was isolating arab jerusalemites from their civil, national and administrative institutions and from any activity that would maintain their interdependence. Their first planned step was initiating a vast campaign to isolate jerusalem from its palestinian surroundings, politically, geographically, economically, socially and demographically. They also erected the apartheid wall around the holy city as well as settlement belts around it entirely. Israel also constructed and strengthened settlements in the heart of arab neighbourhoods to Practice to uproot the Palestinians in Jerusalem
Land confiscation
Moreover, since israel’s occupation of jerusalem in 1967, israel has begun confiscating lands inside jerusalem, and other palestinian cities until it expanded to the ghetto of the old town which arabs inhabited and had no trace of jews. Land confiscation expanded until it reached the mughrabi neighbourhood, beit safafa village, beit jala, al-nabi ya ‘qub, and sheikh jarrah area lands. Land confiscation has been happening and still happening until this day under israel’s false pretexts. Israel has also promulgated legislation and laws prohibiting construction in large areas covering various areas of the city. In addition, they have announced other areas as “green areas” for no building.
To this day, the israeli occupation exploits the classification of palestinian lands according to the oslo accord (a, b and c) to tighten control over palestinians, especially in areas classified as (c) under its full control over security, planning and construction. Israel’s occupation directly exploits 76% of the total area classified as (c); 63% of which regional colonial councils control. Equally important, the areas confiscated for military bases and military training sites represent about 18% of the west bank area, as well as the apartheid wall and expansion that isolated more than 10% of the west bank area.
Shamelessly, israel’s military forces forcibly expel palestinian citizens from their homes, inhabit them by jewish settlers arriving from abroad, and transfer palestinian properties to the settlers. For example, sheikh jarrah’s neighbourhood has been suffering from this issue. In 2008, the occupation authorities forcibly expelled the first palestinian families from the neighbourhood and were repatriated by jews. They expelled the al-ghawi family by force of arms from their homes in the sheikh jarrah neighbourhood. To date, 28 palestinian homes remain threatened with expulsion and transfer of their homes to settlers.
Demolishing “unauthorized construction”
In order to build homes in east jerusalem and area c, palestinians must apply for a permit from the israeli authorities, who control these areas. The vast majority of demolition orders are issued because a home or structure has been built without an israeli permit. Every year israel demolishes hundreds of palestinian homes under the pretext of what zionists call illegal construction in east jerusalem (unauthorized construction).
Zionist authorities impose doubled penalties on jerusalemites such as high financial fines reaching tens of thousands of shekels, actual imprisonment, and instructions requiring jerusalemites to prove ownership of their land by highlighting the land registry. They would also oblige palestinians to obtain the consent of their neighbours including the mukhtar of the village or the village chief. Generally, demolition orders are based on false pretexts that israel considers demolishing their homes itself or even making the situation harder by issuing self-demolition for the palestinians.
General view
Psychological warfare is israel’s best-known ideology for uprooting palestinians to clamp down on palestinians compelling them to leave their lands. Palestinians will never forget israel’s true face. They will never forget the execution of the veteran journalist shirin abu akleh. They will never forget the illegal assassinations, willful injuries, arbitrary arrests, torture and other ill-treatment, persecutions and collective punishments against palestinians, including many children. Violence has always been a key feature of israel. Palestinians will never forget. And they will never forgive.
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