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<td><span class="PublishedDate">[ 					08/11/2010 &#8211; 07:00 PM ] </span></td>
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<p style="font-size:10pt;">GAZA, (PIC)&#8211; Palestine’s religious  affairs ministry in Gaza warned the Israeli government’s announcement to  relaunch the Jerusalem 2020 project, which would reduce the city’s  Palestinian population to 20 per cent, could spark a “painful”  ideological war in the holy city.</p>
<p style="font-size:10pt;">The ministry’s Jerusalem committee said in  a statement it issued Monday that the plan would mean obliterating  Islamic holy sites and landmarks around the Aqsa Mosque in hopes of  taking control of the mosque, destroying it and building the alleged  temple on its ruins.</p>
<p style="font-size:10pt;">The committee added that the Israeli  government seeks to transfer the largest possible number of  Jews to the  holy city and adjoin communities to achieve this goal and transform it  from a “fundamentalist Jewish city into a city of life”.</p>
<p style="font-size:10pt;">The ministry underlined that the  construction of thousands of apartments and a train system between Tel  Aviv and Jerusalem and a railway linking the city’s Gush Etzion  settlement community places the city as a national priority.</p>
<p style="font-size:10pt;">Jerusalem’s Arab population reached  300,000, but with the separation wall isolating 120,000 residents, and  14,000 family’s who were denied citizenship as a result of identity card  revocation, and Resolution 1650 that deprived thousands of family  reunification, the number of Arab residents plummeted to 175,000, while  the number of Jews in east Jerusalem rose to 200,000.</p>
<p style="font-size:10pt;">In a separate development, an official  report issued by the Israeli insurance foundation noted a significant  increase in the poverty level in 2009 in 1948-occupied Palestinian  territories.</p>
<p style="font-size:10pt;">The report issued Monday said the majority  of family’s under the poverty level since the beginning of last year  are Arabs living in territories occupied by Israel in 1948.</p>
<p style="font-size:10pt;">The foundation said the poverty level rose  by six per cent, with 15,000 Palestinian and Jewish families falling  below the poverty line, most of them Palestinians and Jewish extremists.</p>
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<p><a href="http://www.palestine-info.co.uk/En/default.aspx?xyz=U6Qq7k%2bcOd87MDI46m9rUxJEpMO%2bi1s712vhC4aCKDvsejdfl5Tom%2b7gkYeiyInas5LftsvMbZ1cM6fcTE1MMHnFBCi0Y2YSR6gvsC1kkpNn5ZwtMTvLC7jOrpFKdA4HwIc0l4BqEPQ%3d">Religious affairs ministry warns of upcoming ideological war</a>.</p>
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