Report: Israel plans to implement projects turn West Bank into a new Galilee

National Office for the Defense of Land and Resistance of Settlement issued the weekly report which stated that Israel is planning to implement settlement projects that will transform the West Bank into a new Galilee.

The report issued on Saturday stated that the Israeli authorities excluded the annexation plan only to deceive the public and the international international community opinion, while they were building the infrastructure of the annexation project into practice by "bypassing the annexation and dozens of streets between the settlements."

What is happening today is the implementation of a number of plans prepared for building roads and various projects that were revealed, last month, by the Ministry of Transportation in Israel through a master plan for streets paving, transportation, and housing projects in the settlements that aim to transfer the West Bank until the year 2045, to a new Galilee, if there were no surprises that prompt Israel to reconsider its accounts, plans, and settlement projects.

According to the report, quoting sources who spoke recently to the Hebrew newspaper Haaretz, the new in the plans lies in their association with the main Qatari construction plan in Israel.

There is talk about a change in the approach of the Israeli authorities, which previously refrained from including the West Bank into long-term plans, and that within 50 years, Israel had not planned all the Qatari master plans in the West Bank and kept them as a black hole.

Trump administration contributed to change the situation and to begin thinking to build a network of longitudinal and transverse roads, some of them new and some old ones that will be expanded.

This is, ostensibly, is being done for the benefit of all residents in the West Bank. However, the plan includes what is not written on the papers of the plans, and the goal is to expand the settlements to reach the "million plan", which is the goal that the Yesha Council set last year.

The plan stipulates the presence of one million Jews in the West Bank within 15 years, indicating that there is a plan of annexation of another kind, specifically in the infrastructure.

“Each of these projects has a price for the Palestinians,” quoted by Haaretz.

In implementation of these projects, Israeli Transportation Minister Miri Regev approved 4 new settlement projects in the West Bank aiming to facilitate the movement of settlers, at a cost of 400 million shekels.

103 million shekels have been allocated for the project, in addition to the 400 million shekels budget allocation for the development of transportation in the settlements.

According to the report, Regev, last month, presented a long-term strategic plan for a new transportation network linking settlements in the West Bank. The plan includes plans for the next twenty years, bypass roads connecting settlements, and new longitudinal and transverse streets.

The plan includes new projects, including No. 80 new street, which will contain sections of existing streets that will now be developed, and new ones will be made. In addition, to make new bypassing streets.

A new road will erected to link the Qalandia checkpoint and Jerusalem with each other, 437 street will be expanded in the Hizma checkpoint area and 375 street from the Tzur Hadassah settlement in Jerusalem to Husan Junction, and the expansion of Road 446 between the settlements of Sheilat and Modiin.

Source : Safa