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Jilo settlement plan risks East Jerusalem isolation
A new settlement proposal in the Gilo settlement in South Jerusalem reveals a plan to build 2,300 housing units on an area of approximately 20 hectares, aimed at expanding the settlement southward toward Road 60, which connects Jerusalem and Bethlehem. This plan comes after it was approved by the Planning and Building Committee of the Jerusalem municipality authorities. It includes private Palestinian lands, among them 28 dunams that have been seized under the Absentee Property Law. The project seeks to reinforce the geographical separation between East Jerusalem and Bethlehem and to isolate Jerusalem from the southern West Bank, thereby exacerbating the area's isolation and threatening an expansionist settlement movement targeting Palestinian agricultural lands and olive groves, with warnings of potential land razing. This constitutes part of an escalation in Israeli settlement activities in Jerusalem and the West Bank, amid recent allocations of approximately 1.3 billion shekels for new settlement projects.
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