The Israeli regime is planning to build a nine-story seminary in the illegally-annexed East al-Quds (Jerusalem), an Israeli rights group says.
Peace Now said on Wednesday that plans were under way to build the seminary in the predominantly Palestinian neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah.
“It’s a plan for a nine-story, ultra-Orthodox yeshiva in Sheikh Jarrah [neighborhood] which was deposited today for objections,” said the group’s spokesman, Lior Amihai, adding, “The plan was supposed to be discussed and approved a few weeks ago, however it was postponed — most probably due to political reasons.”
Amihai also stated that the tower block would be built in a “sensitive area…which has already suffered a lot.”
The neighborhood, which is home to around 2,700 Palestinian residents, is located to the north of the Old City.
The presence and continued expansion of Israeli settlements in occupied Palestine has created a major obstacle for the efforts made to establish peace in the Middle East.
More than half a million Israelis live in over 120 illegal settlements built since Israel’s occupation of the Palestinian territories of the West Bank and East al-Quds in 1967.
The UN and most countries regard the Israeli settlements as illegal because the territories were captured by Israel in a war in 1967 and are hence subject to the Geneva Conventions, which forbid construction on occupied lands.
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