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<p style="font-size:10pt;">OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC)&#8211; A rights  group in occupied Jerusalem warned Saturday that Israeli occupation  authorities (IOA) have kicked off a new scheme aimed at isolating the  city’s Arab district of Al-Issawiya from the rest of the city.</p>
<p style="font-size:10pt;">Similar isolation patterns were already  witnessed by the Zaeem, Ras Shahada, Ras Khamees, Dahiya Al-Salam, and  Sha’fat sections of the holy city, the Jerusalem Center for Social and  Economic Rights added.</p>
<p style="font-size:10pt;">The rights center went on to say that the  IOA already started a few months ago implementing a plan to close down  the district’s northeastern entrance and attempted to shut down the main  western entrance leading to the Jewish French Hill settlement.</p>
<p style="font-size:10pt;">Infrastructure and a network of roads  linking Issawiya’s eastern entrance to the Ma’bar area, which was built  on the western entrance of Sha’fat, are also under construction.</p>
<p style="font-size:10pt;">After Issawiya’s southern entrance was  blocked off a few years back, Palestinians believe the changes were  “retaliatory acts” the Israeli government was taking against them over  their constant resistance of the occupation.</p>
<p style="font-size:10pt;">A new Israeli police headquarters was established in Issawiya on a road linking Jerusalem to the city of Jericho.</p>
<p style="font-size:10pt;">Authorities are planning to build  thousands of residential units for Jewish settlers, industrial zones,  and tourist resorts set to bridge the Maale Adumim settlement with the  holy city over a land area of 12,400 dunums taken from the districts of  Bethany, Zaeem, Tur, and Issawiya.</p>
<p style="font-size:10pt;">In a related context, the Silwan defense  committee revealed Saturday it had received data confirming that Israeli  authorities were planning to destroy homes in the city’s Al-Bustan  district directly after the Eid holidays.</p>
<p style="font-size:10pt;">Committee head Fahkri Abu Diab told The  Jerusalem Information Center on Saturday that a meeting will be held on  Tuesday, the first day of Eid Al-Adha, between the Knesset Interior  Committee, Israel’s Jerusalem municipality’s judicial consultant,  representatives from the Israeli police force and nature preservation  committee, demolition contractors, and far right members of the Israeli  Knesset.</p>
<p style="font-size:10pt;">Abu Diab, quoting reliable sources, said  the Jerusalem municipality has given the green light to tear down homes  in Silwan and other Arab districts of Jerusalem.</p>
<p style="font-size:10pt;">The homes of Khalil Al-Abbassi in Ain  Al-Lawza, Mohammed Ashour Al-Razim in Silwan, and Ayman Abu Rumaila in  Beit Hanina were identified as some of the targeted residences.</p>
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<p><a href="http://www.palestine-info.co.uk/En/default.aspx?xyz=U6Qq7k%2bcOd87MDI46m9rUxJEpMO%2bi1s7dQJbbxCZzSCXQC4OjO4idXMmrEF3zkq%2bqYghzp7H2nML09dSXYrS%2brBmff0DiyedkNqSIVx48VvCEd7VBmvUYDuNlVQbDFXKkBTmxGnwrE8%3d">J&#8217;lem rights group: Israeli planners have begun isolating Issawiya from city</a>.</p>
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