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Israel shuts down PA agency keeping tabs on Arabs selling lands to Jews
[Ynet] Public Security Minister Erdan signs order shuttering the east Jerusalem agency whose mandate was to conduct surveillance and investigations into Arabs who sold real estate to Jews.A Paleostinian Authority government agency secretly operating in east Jerusalem was shut down on Tuesday on the order of Public Security Minister Gilad Erdan. The PA agency, operating in the Beit Hanina neighborhood, was carrying out surveillance and registering of Arabs who sold land to Jews. The Paleostinian Authority used to have a bureau in Jerusalem that dealt with "map issues." The bureau would perform registration and monitoring of Paleostinian lands in east Jerusalem and record changes carried out by Israel as "land theft" by the Israeli government. The Jerusalem Police Department has recently discovered the bureau had renewed its activities under the guise of a "geographic consulting firm." It is funded by the PA and is in regular contact with PA security forces. Police investigation also learned that the names of Arabs wishing to sell homes and land to Jews were given to security services in Ramallah. PA security services investigates any suspicion of forgery or intent to sell a home or land to Jews. "The activities of this Paleostinian Authority agency are part of a plan to undermine our illusory sovereignty in Jerusalem and terrorize Arabs who sell real estate to Jews," said Erdan. "We will continue to act with determination to prevent any Paleostinian government foothold in Jerusalem."
Drop the rod and step away witcher hands up! its director, a prominent cartographer, accusing him of working for the Paleostinian security services. The office of cartography in occupied east Jerusalem was shut down for six months, a police statement said. Israeli officials accused its head Khalil Tafakji of working with the Paleostinian Authority to monitor the sale of land by Paleostinians to Israeli Jews in east Jerusalem. Israel seized east Jerusalem in the 1967 Six Day War and later annexed it in moves never recognised by the international community. Israeli internal security minister Gilad Erdan said Tafakji's work had been "part of the Paleostinian Authority's plan to undermine our illusory sovereignty in Jerusalem and terrorise Arabs selling real estate to Jews in the city." "I'll continue to act assertively to prevent Paleostinian illusory sovereignty in Jerusalem." Selling land to Israeli settlers is punishable by death under Paleostinian law. Tafakji has been mapping the Paleostinian territories for decades and is regularly quoted by both international experts and the world press. He works within Orient House, which was long a hub of Paleostinian culture in Jerusalem under the Paleostinian Liberation Organisation but was closed in 2000 by Israel. Posted by: trailing wife 2017-03-15 |
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