"Israel Issues Bid for New Jewish East Jerusalem Neighborhood With Over 1,000 Housing Units"
Utdrag av artikkelen:
"A report by Ir Amim and Bimkom nonprofits, said that since October 7,
planning agencies have advanced 17 master plans for Jews in East
Jerusalem that encompass 8,434 apartments. The plans for almost 3,000 of
these apartments have been submitted by the custodian general, which is
responsible for managing Jewish assets abandoned when Jews were forced
out of eastern Jerusalem during the 1948 War of Independence."
Avslutningen av artikkelen:
"According to the Peace Now nonprofit, the invitation to bid shows that
"Israel is advancing new settlements in East Jerusalem at top speed, and
thereby perpetuating the bloody conflict with the Palestinians and the
countries of the region."
Skudeneshavn 19. april 2024
Jan Marton Jensen
På Twitter:
19. april 2024
https://twitter.com/janmarton/status/1781282361839173932
HELE artikkelen i Haaretz 18. april 2024
Israel Issues Bid for New Jewish East Jerusalem Neighborhood With Over 1,000 Housing Units
The Israel Lands Authority's invitation to bid for the construction of the neighborhood went out on Wednesday, just three months after the district planning community approved it – a very short time compared to other, similar projects
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The area where the new neighborhood, Amat Hamayim Hatachtona, is planned to be built.Credit: Olivier Fitoussi |
The Israel Lands Authority is soliciting bids to build 1,047 apartments in a new Jewish neighborhood of East Jerusalem.
The
invitation to bid went out on Wednesday, just three months after the
district planning community approved the new neighborhood – a very short
time compared to other, similar projects.
The new neighborhood, called Amat Hamayim Hatachtona ("The lower watercourse"), will be located near Jerusalem's Har Homa neighborhood in the city's southeast. The plan also calls for building another 400 apartments there down the road.
Since the war in the Gaza Strip began on October 7,
the planning authorities have accelerated work on plans to build new
Jewish neighborhoods in East Jerusalem, despite the international
criticism this engenders.
On October 9, the district planning committee allowed plans for the Kidmat Zion neighborhood, which will be located deep in Palestinian areas of the city, to advance to the next stage of the approval process.
Later, the committee approved plans for building a new neighborhood called Givat Hashaked near the Palestinian neighborhood of Sharafat. That plan was approved in just five weeks, despite the objections submitted to the committee.
In the subsequent months, other plans were also approved or advanced to
the next stage of the process, including one to build four small neighborhoods in East Jerusalem.
Unusually, that plan was proposed by the Justice Ministry's custodian
general – which owns the land on which the projects will be built – in
cooperation with real estate developers affiliated with the right.
Like Givat Hashaked, these four neighborhoods will be adjacent to Palestinian neighborhoods.
A report by Ir Amim and Bimkom nonprofits, said that since October 7, planning agencies have advanced 17 master plans for Jews in East Jerusalem that encompass 8,434 apartments. The plans for almost 3,000 of these apartments have been submitted by the custodian general, which is responsible for managing Jewish assets abandoned when Jews were forced out of eastern Jerusalem during the 1948 War of Independence.
Some other plans would expand large Jewish neighborhoods in East Jerusalem, like Gilo and Pisgat Ze'ev, by replacing low-rise buildings with high-rise ones.
According to the Peace Now nonprofit, the invitation to bid shows that "Israel is advancing new settlements in East Jerusalem at top speed, and thereby perpetuating the bloody conflict with the Palestinians and the countries of the region."
