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Palestinians erect tent village to protest
settlement expansion
Saturday February 02, 2013 09:15:14 PM,
IANS
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Ramallah:
Palestinian activists erected "tent village" to the north of a
West Bank village Saturday to protest against Israeli plans to
confiscate the land for settlement expansion.
The activists pitched eight tents and decorated them with
Palestinian flags in the mountainous area which the Israeli army
has announced a closed zone for Palestinians months ago, reported
Xinhua.
The village is located near Nablus city and the activists say 80
percent of its land was used or allocated for the use of Jewish
settlement activities.
Ghassan Daghlas, head of the popular resistance movement, said
that 400 activists are holding a sit-in protest in the area,
adding that the Israeli army intensified its presence there,
blocking roads leading to the tent village.
The village is located in Area B of the West Bank, where Israel
retains security control while the Palestinian National
Authority's (PNA) mandate there is limited to administrative
issues.
The activists started the tactic of tent villages since the
beginning of 2013 in a bid to draw attention to the confiscation
of land. The idea is based on erecting the tents before Israel
starts any activity on the lands set for seizure.
On Thursday, an investigation committee formed by the United
Nations Human Rights Council called on Israel to stop settlement
expansion in the lands that it occupied in 1967. The investigators
urged Israel to evacuate its settlements in the West Bank.
The settlement activities caused Israeli-Palestinian peace talks
to break down in 2010.
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