مخطط استيطاني في مطار قلنديا

“Israel Hayom” newspaper said that the Minister of Interior in the caretaker government of the occupying state, Ayelet Shaked, has completed all the necessary planning stages to establish a large settlement and commercial neighborhood on the lands of Qalandia International Airport, north of occupied Jerusalem.

According to the newspaper, the plan contains about 9,000 residential units in addition to various commercial facilities, despite anticipated American and international reservations.

The newspaper added that Shaked called on the District Planning and Construction Committee in the occupied city of Jerusalem to expedite the approval of new building plans, to move to the implementation stages, before the end of her term as Minister of the Interior, with the formation of the new Israeli government.

According to the newspaper, the Planning and Construction Directorate has currently informed it that the failure to complete the environmental survey of the site is what currently prevents the final approval of the settlement project, the largest in recent years in the city of Jerusalem, especially since it is located in the northernmost area of the occupied part of the city of Jerusalem, in 2013. 67.

According to the newspaper, moving to the final stage of approving the plan may take a few months until the aforementioned survey is completed.

Settlement activity in the West Bank and occupied Jerusalem is expected to escalate during the era of Benjamin Netanyahu's new government, with the leader of "religious Zionism" Bezalel Smotrich being given responsibility for supervising settlement in the West Bank, as he adopts an extremely extreme approach to settlement, especially in Area C.