Israel Threatens to Take over Solomon's Basins, the Ancient Water Tanks Near Bethlehem Under Palestinian Control
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Far-right politicians have launched an effort to expel Palestinians from Solomon's Cistern, citing a "historical right." At its core, however, the issue is deeply political. The post Israel Escalates Effort to Control the West Bank – Wants to Seize Ancient Cisterns in Bethlehem appeared first on in.gr.
The Israeli occupation plan of the West Bank has been following for decades a consolidated strategy: to occupy as many territories as possible and to render uninhabitable those that, instead, are not controlled. In this neo-colonial plan also includes the policy of exploitation and integral control of the water resources of the Occupied Territories. Last objective of this plan to hunt the Palestinian population [...] L'articolo The Solomon's poo…
Solomon's bases, a historic site near Bethlehem and administered by the Palestinian Authority on the basis of the Oslo Accords, have become the new tension point between Israel and the Palestinians. Israeli officials of the far right are calling for control over the complex, a measure that could create a precedent regarding the status of the territories of the West Bank.
Israel is threatening to seize the medieval Solomon's Pools near Bethlehem, which are owned by the Palestinians under a 30-year-old agreement. Far-right Israeli politicians say the pools are historically significant to the Jewish state and are poorly maintained by the Palestinians. However, further expansion of Israeli influence in the West Bank would escalate already tense relations.
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