IOA builds new settlement in occupied Jerusalem

December 21, 2006

Occupied Jerusalem - The Israeli occupation authority (IOA) is building a new settlement south of occupied Jerusalem on the lands of the Palestinian village of Walaja, the popular committee in defense of lands said.

It added, in a statement, that more than 13,000 housing units would be built over 2,000 dunums of land in that village.

The committee said that the IOA was planning to settle 55,000 Jews in this new settlement as part of the scheme to surround Jerusalem with Israeli settlements with the ultimate goal of judaizing the holy city.

It recalled that 72,000 dunums of Bethlehem lands were confiscated by the IOA and annexed to what this authority calls "greater Jerusalem".

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