The so-called Israeli “Nature Authority” and the “Elad” settlement association installed surveillance cameras and eavesdropping devices on the lands of the Wadi Al-Rababa neighborhood in the town of Silwan, south of the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque.

Al-Maqdisi Ahmed Samrin, one of the landowners, said in press statements, “Crews from the Nature Authority and Elad Settlement Authority, with protection from the occupation police, installed surveillance cameras and eavesdropping devices on electricity poles on the family’s lands in the neighborhood.”

The Samrin family owns 30 dunams, of the 200 dunams of land, which are threatened with confiscation in favor of establishing “biblical gardens.”

Samreen explained that the occupation authorities were not satisfied with their attempts to seize the lands of the Wadi Al-Rababa neighborhood, but rather were working to install eavesdropping and monitoring devices inside those lands, and in the neighborhood’s roads, streets, and intersections, with the aim of monitoring the land owners and the neighborhood’s people.

He added that these cameras invade the privacy of Jerusalemites, even inside their homes, as they reveal the entire area, which has come under a microscope, and everything is now being monitored by the occupation forces.

Recently, the “Nature Authority” began installing more surveillance cameras on the lands of Wadi Al-Rababa, which are threatened with confiscation in favor of settlement and Judaization, leading to their conversion into “public biblical gardens” for settlers.