Faizel Patel, Radio Islam News – 14-01-2019
A professor from Berzeit University in the West Bank in Palestine says a new road opened by Israeli authorities on the outskirts of Jerusalem has been built to separate Palestinians from Jewish settlers living on occupied Palestinian territories.
According to JPost Route, 4370 will relieve traffic congestion east of Jerusalem and provide a new security checkpoint on the way to the city.
The paper reports that when completed, the bypass will direct Palestinian traffic away from an existing road in the unbuilt area of E1 and facilitate uninterrupted Palestinian traffic between Bethlehem and Ramallah.
Speaking to Radio Islam, Berzeit University’s Professor Ghasaan Khatib says while strong negative reaction from Israeli’s, Palestinians and the international community led to a similar road being closed, he hopes the same will happened to Route 4370.
“I don’t know if this time there’s going to be the same level of negative reaction or not, but I look at it as another step in the apartheid kind of situation that Israel is taking us through.”
The Palestine Information Network’s (PIN) Ebrahim Moosa says the new road is problematic for Palestinians on levels
“It’s being built partly on land that was stolen from the Palestinian village of Anata.”
Moosa says the broader idea of Route 4370 is part of the Greater Jerusalem plan of the municipality in Israel which seeks to incorporate large areas of the West Bank into Jerusalem in an area called E1.
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