The Hebron Rehabilitation Committee has revealed that a group of Jewish settlers started recently to establish a new outpost on a Palestinian-owned plot of land behind the closed Souk al-Dahab (gold market) in the Old City of al-Khalil

Head of the Committee Imad Hamdan said that the settlers intends to build two housing units on the land after they already took over the gas station in al-Shuhada street (closed area) and fenced it.

Hamdan expressed his grave concern over such encroachments upon the properties of Palestinian citizens in the Old City of al-Khalil, especially in the areas declared 17 years ago by the Israeli occupation authority (IOA) as closed military zones.

In 2014, the IOA declared many Palestinian areas and streets in the Old City of al-Khalil closed military zones following the events that resulted from the massacre that had been committed by Jewish terrorist Baruch Goldstein at the Ibrahimi Mosque.

Hamadan appealed to the international community and its concerned organizations to assume their responsibilities in this regard and take action against Israel’s settlement activities in the Old City of al-Khalil.

 

Source: The Palestinian Information Center