The head of the Hebron Rehabilitation Committee (governmental), Eng. Imad Hamdan, warned on Sunday of Israeli measures paving the way for the confiscation of 70 Palestinian properties in the heart of the city and transferring their ownership to settlers.
In a statement to Anadolu Agency, Hamdan said that a group of Israeli actions "warns of a real danger looming over the Old City (in the city of Hebron) and may make the situation there catastrophic, as the occupation authorities seek with all their might to impose their hegemony and control over the town."
He explained that there are "statements from the Israeli government of extremism that they will work to restore about 70 buildings in the Old City, which will be handled by the (Israeli) Custodian of Absentee Property, and will be handed over to settlers."
Israel's Absentee Property Law of 1950 provides for the confiscation of the real estate of Palestinians who "left the country for enemy countries" during the 1948 war. This was the year in which Israel was established on occupied Palestinian land.
Warning of a series of accelerated measures in the last week paving the way for the implementation of the Israeli plan, Hamdan stated that "5 buildings were demolished in the Old Market area, and National Security Minister Itamar bin Gvir stormed the Ibrahimi Mosque (in Hebron), and stormed a carpentry (carpentry workshop) and notified its owner to evacuate it and take the keys." from him".
He added that the Palestinian side will go to the Israeli judiciary at various levels to object to the Israeli steps.
The Hebron Rehabilitation Committee said in a statement on Sunday that the Israeli authorities refuse in police stations to receive complaints from Palestinian citizens whose properties are subjected to settler attacks.
And she added, "The citizen, Tawfiq Arafa, goes daily to the Israeli police station to file a complaint against settlers' assault on his property in the middle of the market in the Old City, and they refuse to receive him and register his complaint."
And on Saturday, the Hebron municipality said that it had submitted a petition to the Israeli Supreme Court "to stop the attacks of the occupation and its settlers on the citizens' property in the Old City."
She explained that the petition aims to "prevent the implementation of the occupying power's plan to expand the settlement outpost in the heart of Hebron and link it to the rest of the settlement outposts on the lands of the Palestinian citizens in Hebron, as the plan includes handing over 70 buildings to herds of settlers at the main entrance to the Old City."
The municipality confirmed that the targeted real estate is "Palestinian property managed and occupied by Palestinian citizens according to contracts and legal documents."
Last January, the Hebrew newspaper Haaretz reported that the Israeli government plans, as part of the "governmental coalition agreement between the Likud and religious Zionist parties, to transfer about 13,000 dunams (13,000 square meters) in the West Bank and 70 buildings in Hebron to settlers." under the pretext that they owned it before 1948.
The West Bank Settlers attack two Palestinians and break olive trees in Nablus
Two Palestinians were injured, and 260 olive trees were damaged in attacks by Israeli settlers in Nablus, in the northern occupied West Bank, according to two Palestinian sources.
The Palestinian Red Crescent said in a statement that its crews in the town of Burqa, northwest of Nablus, transferred two injuries "as a result of the settlers' severe beatings to Rafidia Hospital (in Nablus)."
Activists and media professionals circulated pictures of the two Palestinians and the traces of abundant blood on the clothes and faces of the injured.
In the town of Deir Sharaf, west of Nablus, a Palestinian farmer confirmed that settlers attacked dozens of olive trees by damaging them and damaging barbed wire surrounding his land.
The owner of the trees, Ghazi Antari, told Anadolu Agency that "settlers destroyed, by uprooting and cutting, 260 olive trees spread over more than 10 dunams (10,000 square meters)."
He added, "The trees are between 3 and 5 years old, and most likely settlers from the nearby Shavei Shomron settlement carried out the attack."
Israeli settlers launched 314 attacks on Palestinians and their property in the West Bank from the beginning of this year until April 17, 89 of which were Palestinian injuries, and in 225 there was damage to their property, according to United Nations data seen by Anadolu Agency.
About a million visitors in 3 days A great turnout for the "Technofest Istanbul" festival
The "Technofest" festival for aviation and space technology in Istanbul received 925,437 visitors, within 3 days.
The festival, which is held on the grounds of Ataturk Airport in Istanbul, started on April 27, and on its first day it received 25,437 visitors.
The next day, the festival received 300,000 visitors, while this number rose to 600,000 visitors on the third day.
Thus, the total number of visitors to the festival reached 925,437 during the first 3 days of its launch.
On Thursday, the activities of the seventh edition of the TEKNOFEST festival, which is the world's largest in the field of aviation and space technology, kicked off in Istanbul.
The festival is supervised by the "Turkish Technology Team Endowment" in cooperation with the Ministry of Industry and Technology.
Its activities extend until May 1, and include competitions, air shows, artistic concerts, panel discussions, and technology events.
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