Diliani added that such "aggression" occurs in parallel with the decision of Israel's Jerusalem municipality to resume house demolitions in the occupied city, in addition to settlement building, the separation wall, seizing residents' houses for the benefit of settlers, imposing high taxes, restricting movement, confining the process of education, and systematically disrupting social and cultural development.
He pointed out those settlers uprooted 300-old olive trees in the village of Mikhmas, north of Jerusalem, on Tuesday at the same time that the military ruling authority in the West Bank announced the confiscation of hundreds of acres in Anata village, northeast of Jerusalem, for the benefit of expanding a military base used by Israeli forces.
Diliani emphasized that the Jerusalem rural areas are targeted as a part of the process of "Israelization of occupied Arab Jerusalem." Settlers often terrorize citizens in these areas, he said, while Israeli authorities provide them with armed protection. He characterized as catastrophic the situation in East Jerusalem and its rural areas, calling for international intervention.
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