Zionist forces bomb southern Lebanon as NGO denounces plans for additional housing units in East Jerusalem.
On Wednesday, an Israeli drone killed one person and wounded 12 others in an attack on the cemetery mosque in Tebnine, a town in southern Lebanon.
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The attack took place on the same day that the Israeli occupation army issued a forced displacement order in Mansouri, a municipality that was later bombed.
About 15 Lebanese families were able to escape unharmed before the bombing began in the region, which is located within the strip of Lebanon that is militarily occupied by Israel.
According to the Zionist army, civilians moved to Mansouri “under the protection of the Lebanese Armed Forces” and established “a checkpoint in violation of what had been agreed.”
As on previous occasions, in an attempt to justify another war crime, Israel said it bombed the municipality because of Hizbullah’s ceasefire violation.
The Israeli attacks came one day after the seventh round of negotiations, led by the United States, began in Rome between Israel and Lebanon with the aim of advancing the implementation of the security framework signed in June, consolidating the withdrawal of Israeli troops and their replacement by the Lebanese army.
Since 1967, Israel has confiscated land belonging to Palestinian Christian families, particularly around Bethlehem, to construct and expand Israeli settlements considered illegal under international law.
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Israel Continues to Illegally Occupy Palestinian Territory
On Wednesday, the NGO Ir Amim denounced Israel’s plan to build 2,300 additional housing units in Gilo, a settlement considered illegal under international law because it is located in the occupied Palestinian territory of East Jerusalem.
The expansion of the settlement reaches the edge of Highway 60, further disconnecting East Jerusalem from the southern West Bank, as the road links the holy city with Bethlehem.
“Together with other settlement projects advancing in southern East Jerusalem, it further disconnects East Jerusalem from the Bethlehem area and deepens Israeli control over one of the city’s most strategically sensitive areas,” Ir Amim researcher Aviv Tatarsky said.
The Jerusalem District Planning and Building Committee approved the plan on July 28, and the housing units will cover an area of about 20 hectares, including approximately three hectares of Palestinian land confiscated under Israel’s Absentees’ Property Law.
Together with the ongoing construction of the Givat Hamatos settlement and the planned expansion of Har Homa, the project represents another significant step toward the complete territorial separation of East Jerusalem from the southern West Bank.
The planned construction area also includes extensive centuries-old olive groves on privately owned Palestinian land, Ir Amim said, warning that they could be uprooted once the project moves forward.
On July 14, the Israeli security Cabinet approved a budget of 375 million euros for the construction of 34 new settlements in the occupied West Bank, as announced by Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich, a far-right settler, who has approved more than new 100 settlements so far.
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Sources: EFE – Ir Amim
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