District agree to a new settlement plan for the construction of 549 housing units near Beit Safafa
The Committee approved the District Planning and Construction in the municipality of Jerusalem, recently put up a new settlement plan for the construction of 549 housing units. The researcher Ahmed pour milk in the Assembly “Ir Amim” dealing in the affairs of the settlement that the District Committee approved the launch of the new scheme to a referendum in accordance with the laws of Israel, will be published announcement about that in the near future, explaining that the plan bears the number 5834 “to” According to his map Structurally, it is located in southern Jerusalem neighborhood of Beit Safafa, west of Hebron Road. Will be construction of housing units in buildings of five to six floors on the territory of the village of Beit Safafa, and covers an area of land on which project will be implemented by 153 dunums, note that this scheme is still under the first phase of implementation, a phase presented to the general public to oppose it.
According to Article 89 and 100 of the Code of Organization and Israeli construction in 1965, will be to the general public an opportunity to object to the chart, note that the period of objection to the scheme will expire within sixty days since the publication of the Declaration on Authentication District Committee to put forward the planned referendum. The scheme successively with the scheme which the Commission had announced previously for the construction of 2337 housing units to the settlement of Givat Hmtos and which bears the number 5834 “A”, in addition to the chart number 5834 “C” for the construction of 813 housing units, in addition to a hotel consisting of 1100 rooms in the building four floors and in accordance with the structural map of 5834 “D”.
Will be the implementation of these schemes Western Street Hebron, near the neighborhood of Beit Safafa, which comes in four masterplans announced yet officially three of them, all these schemes assume no master plan 8534, and then divided into four sections are A, B, C and D, will be through building 3699 residential units in addition to tourist hotels with a capacity of accommodating up to 1100 rooms, not to mention all the attachments of the crisis of public buildings and synagogues and Israeli schools to serve the project and its inhabitants. It is intended all of these schemes build a new Israeli settlement south of Jerusalem, enhance demographic separation between Jerusalem and the southern West Bank through the completion of the enclave, south of Jerusalem and the component from the settlement of Har Homa and Gilo, Givat Hmtos future.
As is clear has been officially announced so far on the outline of C and A and B by the Planning and Building Committee of Israel, and scheme B which is planned later in terms of the Declaration, it was still diagrams A and C Iqavan within the confines of the District Committee, especially since many of the objections to the scheme presented by the inhabitants of Jerusalem and especially residents of the village of Beit Safafa to mention the objection Association Ir Amim planners A and C because of Tnavehma with the interests of the Palestinian population in East Jerusalem, and specifically the village of Beit Safafa, in addition to that the continuation of the Israeli government in view and discuss such schemes would be detrimental to in the interests of Israel before the Palestinian, and through the obstruction and destruction of any future opportunities for the peace process between Palestinian and Israeli sides, because of the imposition of de facto policies also said to pour milk.