The occupation officially notifies of the start of implementing the "Fabric of Life" settlement project to isolate and annex areas east of Jerusalem

The occupation authorities officially notified the lawyer of the Bedouin communities and the municipality of Al-Eizariya of their intention to actually begin implementing their settlement project.

The Jerusalem Governorate reported that the "Israeli" occupation authorities officially notified the lawyer of the Bedouin communities and the municipality of Al-Eizariya of their intention to actually begin implementing their dangerous settlement project known as the "Fabric of Life", after a 45-day period from the date of the notification issued by what is called the occupation's military prosecution.

The Governorate clarified in a statement issued on Thursday that this project represents the practical implementation of the Israeli annexation plan for the area classified as "E1", as it aims to achieve complete geographical continuity between the "Ma'ale Adumim" settlement and occupied Jerusalem, which will lead to the separation of the northern West Bank from its south and the swallowing of approximately 3% of the West Bank's area to officially annex it within the "Greater Jerusalem" scheme.

The Governorate affirmed that the catastrophic repercussions of the project are represented in establishing a traffic "apartheid" system, where Palestinians will be prevented from using the main road number "1" and will be confined to an underground tunnel near the Al-Zaim checkpoint, while the surface road will be exclusively allocated to settlers.

This scheme will isolate the communities of Jabal al-Baba, Wadi al-Jamal, and the town of Al-Eizariya, and threatens to demolish and evacuate dozens of structures that recently received at least 43 notifications in preparation for the expansion of the project.

The Governorate added that the occupation is practicing financial piracy to fund this colonial project; as the extremist occupation's Minister of Finance, Bezalel Smotrich, approved funding for the road, which costs 98 million dollars, from the withheld Palestinian clearing funds, in an attempt to mislead the international community by claiming that the road serves Palestinians, while the engineering plans attached to the notification show that it aims to facilitate the movement of settlers and remove visible obstacles in front of them at the expense of the Palestinian presence.

The Jerusalem Governorate concluded its statement by warning that this project is the harshest blow to the possibility of establishing a contiguous Palestinian state, calling on the international community to take effective positions that go beyond condemnation to stop the process of ethnic cleansing and creeping annexation targeting the Palestinian presence in East Jerusalem and its surroundings.