UN EXPERT URGES ISRAEL TO STOP HIGHWAY CONSTRUCTION THROUGH PALESTINIAN COMMUNITY

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UN EXPERT URGES ISRAEL TO STOP HIGHWAY CONSTRUCTION THROUGH
PALESTINIAN COMMUNITY
New York, May 13 2013 11:00AM
A United Nations independent expert today called on Israel to
immediately halt construction of a settlement highway that would cut
through the Palestinian community of Beit Safafa endangering the
livelihoods of some 9,300 people.

"The projected six-lane highway extending 1.5 kilometres will do
irreparable damage to the community, cutting off local roads and
blocking access to kindergartens, schools, health clinics, offices,
and places of worship,"
<"http://www.ohchr.org/EN/NewsEvents/Pages/DisplayNews.aspx?NewsID=13318&LangID=E">warned
the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the
Palestinian territories occupied since 1967, Richard Falk.

"The residents of Beit Safafa, who were not consulted at any stage of
the planning, will be placed in an absurd situation where places
within their own community -- previously accessible within ten
minutes' walk -- would require travel by car on bypass roads and a
bridge."

Mr. Falk noted that the purpose of the highway, known as 'Begin
Highway,' is to annex the Gush Etzion settlement bloc and pave the way
for further expansion of Israel's illegal settlements around East
Jerusalem.

"It will consolidate the highway network from Gush Etzion settlement
in the southern West Bank through West and East Jerusalem, leading to
the Ma'ale Adumim settlement bloc and the E1 area," he said.

Mr. Falk recalled the recent findings of the International Fact
Finding Mission on Israeli settlements, which recommended that private
companies should no longer be able to profit from their involvement in
the illegal Israeli settlement enterprise.

"Companies taking part in the construction of the illegal highway in
Beit Safafa, under the auspices of the Moriah Jerusalem Development
Company and their implementing partner, D.Y. Barazani Ltd., must be
held responsible," he stressed. "Earth moving equipment of Volvo, CAT,
Hyundai and JCB has been seen at the construction sites."

The project, which began in September, was challenged in the Jerusalem
District Court last December, but the residents' petition to stop
construction was rejected. An appeal filed with the Israeli High Court
against the District Court's decision was also rejected in March. An
appeal hearing as to the petition has been scheduled in the High Court
for 26 June.
May 13 2013 11:00AM
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