Right-wing Israeli settlers will move in to Palestinian town of Ras al-Amud

In the next few days, a new Israeli settlement will be established in the Palestinian neighborhood of Ras al-Amud, east of Jerusalem, according to the former Israeli police commissioner Moshe Karadi.

Map of Ras Al-Amud and nearby areas

Israeli sources reported Monday that the new Israeli settlement will be constructed on land that is supposed to be part of future negotiations between the Israeli government and the Palestinian Authority. As is the case with most of the 300 settlements that Israel has built in the West Bank and East Jerusalem, the construction is in direct violation of Israeli promises made during negotiations with the Palestinian Authority, in which Israeli officials promised to halt the construction of new settlements on stolen Palestinian land.

But despite Israeli promises to the contrary, settlement construction has contininued unabated through all 'negotiation' processes, until nearly 500,000 Israelis live on occupied Palestinian land in the West Bank and East Jerusalem. Israeli officials have even made public statements that they are trying to establish "facts on the ground" by constructing as many settlements as possible on Palestinian land, and do not plan to withdraw from any of the illegally-occupied land.

The new settlement will be in a Palestinian-built building that was taken over by the Israeli police force, originally under the pretext of "security reasons", then to establish a Police Station there. More