❗️Israel plans new settlement in Qalandia as dozens of Palestinian homes face demolition – The Cradle
❗️Israel plans new settlement in Qalandia as dozens of Palestinian homes face demolition
Israel has advanced plans for a large ultra-Orthodox settlement on the old Jerusalem airport lands in Qalandia, alongside a separate project to build a waste treatment plant on cultivated Palestinian farmland. Rights groups say the parallel plans will uproot dozens of families and erase some of the village’s last arable plots.
Calcalist reported that the settlement proposal covers 1,263 dunams and includes more than 9,000 housing units, while Peace Now says residents of several nearby buildings received eviction orders to clear a 130-dunam agricultural tract earmarked for the planned waste facility, a site that officials also intend to bring inside Israel’s side of the barrier.
(Palestine Chronicle, Al Jazeera)
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