Zionist Israeli Occupation approves the most serious settlement project in Jerusalem

Al-Aqsa Foundation for endowment and heritage stated in a statement on Wednesday evening that the occupation began to review the final steps of its dangerous schemes to Judaize Jerusalem’s Old City, especially those adjacent to the Al-Aqsa Mosque and specifically al-Buraq Wall.

The Foundation warned in its statement that the occupation will start a wide campaign of fundamental changes to the Islamic and Christian buildings and monuments in the Old City of occupied Jerusalem. The Israeli plans also aim to establish new buildings, notably the al-Buraq area.

Al-Aqsa Foundation warned against this scheme “which would have serious consequences on Al-Aqsa Mosque and the entire Old City of Jerusalem,” calling on all Arab, Islamic, and Palestinian concerned parties to move to thwart this plan.

The foundation stated that the so-called District Committee for Planning and Construction of the Jerusalem Municipality and the so-called “Jerusalem Development Authority” discussed on Wednesday evening in a special session the new map of the old town in Jerusalem, which would have serious consequences in the old City of Jerusalem.

It noted that the mentioned map is the newest and widest Israeli scheme since 1977, which aims to change al-Buraq Square which is originally a part of the Magaribi Quarter, destroyed by the occupation in 1967.

Meanwhile, Israeli sources confirmed that the so-called Civil Administration approved the establishment of more than 3000 new housing units in the area between Jabal al-Masharif and the settlement of “Ma’ale Adumim” established on the eastern part of the holy city, explaining that the plan will be presented to the public within 60 days.

The occupation authorities have approved settlement schemes in Jerusalem and the occupied West Bank recently following the UN vote upgrading Palestine to a “non-member observer state, in spite that the settlement projects did not stop during the past years but it has increased in 2012.