The Government of Israel has confirmed the confiscation of 400 hectares of land
in the West Bank, which now become Israeli-owned. This announcement is called
five days after entry into force of the truce with Palestinian factions in Gaza
but took, indicate government sources, the last week. The area in question is
less than 10 kilometers south of Bethlehem, in the Gush Etzion area, precisely
where the June's news 12 were abducted and subsequently killed three young Jews who
were studying in ground occupied. This gesture of Israel is interpreted as a
response to this crime, which led to mass arrests of Hamas members -to whom
Israel accuses the case recognized later by one of their leaders - and, finally,
to an escalation of violence that resulted in the Operation Scope Protector
against Hamas. According to the complaint the Israeli NGO Peace Now and will add
this land to a settlement called Gvaot, which now reside not more than 15
people, but that is very close to Gush Boys, where there are already 60,000
illegal residents. The idea, according to have found the local authorities to
France Presse, would be to create a "new town" in this area was annexd. There
are 45 days to submit his claims, but the organization warns that are almost
never heard. The Department of State of USA requested this Sunday to Israel to
reconsider its decision, because it is "counterproductive" for peace, according
to Reuters. The association argues that it is the confiscation of soil "more
severe since the beginning of the eighties" in that area and complicates the
communications between the south of the West Bank and East Jerusalem, purported
capital of a future Palestinian State. It is precisely this important
announcement of Israel because it occurs three days after the Palestinian
president, Mahmud Abbas, stating that the Israeli prime minister Benjamin
Netanyahu, had told him personally that he was willing to recognize a fully
sovereign Palestinian State on the borders prior to occupation of 1967, this is,
on the West Bank, Gaza and East Jerusalem. This idea was rejected by the Israeli
Government with a statement to the daily Ha'aretz, without more. The new
annexation means cut slated the territory that is intended to be in these
borders. With Netanyahu, the complaint also the group of peace activists now,
the pace of construction of new homes in colonies has been multiplied,
complicating this delimitation of the frontiers. There was a wave of approvals
in spring, when they broke the latest peace negotiations with the Palestinians.
Since the kidnapping of the kids, denounces the Palestinian Government, have
been authorized 1,472 more units. Both the office of Abbas as the Organization
for the Liberation of Palestine have been very critical with this step. "Only
further deteriorate the situation", I am sorry Nabil Abu Rudeineh, spokesman for
the Palestinian president, recalling that the international community considered
the illegal settlements and an obstacle to peace, as they are called, also, the
US president, Barack Obama. Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat argues that it is
"ending the Palestinian presence in the area" and "the dream of two States".
Both complain that this measure could "destabilize" West Bank, where the
protests, first, by the murder of a minor by radical Palestinian nationalist
Jews in Jerusalem and, then, in Gaza, have already ceased 32 killed in clashes
with the Israeli army.
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