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<p style="font-size:10pt;">OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC)&#8211;  The Israeli occupation&#8217;s Jerusalem municipality announced Monday bids to  build around a thousand new settlement units in Jebel Abu Ghunaim,  south Jerusalem.</p>
<p style="font-size:10pt;">The Israeli Haaretz newspaper reported  that the municipality’s district planning committee discussed the plan  for two years and recently published it to allow citizens to pose any  objections before final endorsement in a few months.</p>
<p style="font-size:10pt;">The plan includes  930 residential units to be built in Har Homa C, and other bids to expand Har Homa B with 48 units.</p>
<p style="font-size:10pt;">Haaretz said more bids to build 320  settlement units in Jerusalem’s Ramot district east of the Green Line  were announced last week.</p>
<p style="font-size:10pt;">In the same context, the municipality said  in an official report it issued Monday that it was currently building  more than 13,500 housing units in a number of east Jerusalem’s Arab  neighborhoods.</p>
<p style="font-size:10pt;">The municipality also announced a plan to  build around 350 classrooms in east Jerusalem under a plan to increase  the volume of investments in the education sector.</p>
<p style="font-size:10pt;">In a separate development, Israeli revenue  service crews and border guards deployed early Monday morning in a  wide-ranging raid campaign against Palestinian-owned shops and homes in  Jerusalem’s Issawiyya district, eyewitnesses said.</p>
<p style="font-size:10pt;">Locals reported that Israeli soldiers set  up checkpoints at the district’s entrances to stop Palestinians and  check for outstanding tax obligations.</p>
<p style="font-size:10pt;">Silwan defense committee member Fakhri Abu  Dhiab said the campaign came as a retaliatory step against the  district’s Arab residents over clashes that broke out with Israeli  authorities in recent weeks, and to complement arrest campaigns  targeting young men in the city’s Arab neighborhoods of Silwan and  Issawiyya.</p>
<p style="font-size:10pt;">In a separate incident, the Aqsa  Foundation in Jerusalem said a large and ancient tree tumbled down  Monday in the Aqsa Mosque a few meters away from the Maghariba Gate.</p>
<p style="font-size:10pt;">The Foundation said Israeli digging around the mosque were the likely cause of the tree’s collapse.</p>
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<p><a href="http://www.palestine-info.co.uk/En/default.aspx?xyz=U6Qq7k%2bcOd87MDI46m9rUxJEpMO%2bi1s7EAwGyTqK1ZYJxSbW37sBXk93zuxMfSyvRKkFTmy1E%2bT19XnFq%2bxG3tR7mCGdh94Ipu%2fq6uEbbKxpW266gZlMY0f1KN2QVWXJF6SiAGUFYe4%3d">Israel&#8217;s Jerusalem municipality announces new settlement projects in city</a>.</p>
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