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Srikandi גבורה - Kementerian
perumahan Israel telah mengeluarkan 1,500 tender untuk unit perumahan
penempatan baru, menjelaskan langkah itu sebagai tindak balas kepada kerajaan
perpaduan Palestin. Palestin berkata mereka akan merayu keputusan itu di Majlis
Keselamatan PBB.
Tender
bagi 900 unit perumahan di Tebing Barat dan 560 unit di timur Baitulmaqdis
telah dikeluarkan lewat Rabu. Menteri Perumahan Uri Ariel menyifatkan langkah
itu sebagai tindak balas kepada kabinet perpaduan Palestin yang baru, yang
mengangkat sumpah Isnin.
"Saya
mengucapkan tahniah kepada keputusan untuk memberikan tindak balas ZINIS yang
betul dengan penubuhan kabinet keganasan Palestin," Ariel berkata, Haaretz
melaporkan. "Hak dan kewajipan negara Israel utk membina di seluruh
negara untuk menurunkan harga perumahan tidak boleh dipersoalkan, dan saya
percaya tender ini adalah hanya permulaan."
Israel
telah mengecam perdamaian Palestin Fatah dan Hamas pergerakan dan meng-gesa DUNIA
terhadap mengiktiraf kerajaan perpaduan baru.
Pada
hari Selasa, Perdana Menteri Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu mengkritik pentadbiran
Obama untuk berikrar untuk bekerja dengan kabinet Palestin yang baru, kini
termasuk wakil-wakil Hamas yang berpangkalan di Gaza, yang telah dilabel
sebagai organisasi pengganas oleh Amerika Syarikat, Kesatuan Eropah dan Israel.
Pertubuhan
Pembebasan Palestin (PLO) bertindak balas kepada pengumuman tender penyelesaian
dengan berjanji untuk merayu kepada Majlis Keselamatan PBB ke atas keputusan
itu.
"Jawatankuasa
eksekutif PLO melihat peningkatan terbaru ini dengan kesungguhan yang terbaik,"
kata ahli jawatankuasa eksekutif Hanan Ashrawi dalam satu kenyataan, AFP
melaporkan. Jawatankuasa eksekutif "akan menanganinya dengan menangani
kedua-dua Majlis Keselamatan Bangsa-Bangsa Bersatu dan Perhimpunan Agung
seba-gai cara yang betul membendung pencabulan ini dan memastikan akauntabiliti,"
tam-bah beliau.
Tender
penempatan baru telah dikutuk oleh ketua perunding damai Palestin, Saeb Erekat,
yang berkata keputusan itu adalah "tanda yang jelas bahawa Israel bergerak
ke arah peningkatan yang besar."
‘Proper
Zionist response’: Israel issues tenders for 1,500 new settlement homes
Israel's
housing ministry has issued 1,500 tenders for new settlement housing units,
explaining the move as a response to the Palestinian unity government. The
Palestinians say they will appeal the decision at the UN Security Council.
Tenders
for 900 housing units in the West Bank and 560 units in east Jerusalem were
issued late Wednesday. Housing Minister Uri Ariel described the move as a
response to the new Palestinian unity cabinet, which was sworn in Monday.
"I
congratulate the decision to give a proper Zionist response to the
establishment of the Palestinian terror cabinet," Ariel said, Haaretz
reported. "The right and duty of the State of Israel to build across the
country to lower the housing prices is unquestionable, and I believe these
tenders are just the beginning."
Israel
has slammed the reconciliation of the Palestinian Fatah and Hamas movements and
has urged the world against recognizing the new unity government.
On
Tuesday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu strongly criticized the
Obama administration for pledging to work with the new Palestinian cabinet, now
including representatives of the Gaza-based Hamas, which has been labeled a
terrorist organization by the US, the European Union and Israel.
The
Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO) reacted to the announcement of the
settlement tenders by promising to appeal to the UN Security Council over the
decision.
"The
executive committee of the PLO views this latest escalation with the utmost
seriousness," executive committee member Hanan Ashrawi said in a
statement, AFP reported. The executive committee "will counter it by
addressing both the United Nations Security Council and the General Assembly as
the proper way of curbing this grave violation and ensuring
accountability," she added.
The
new settlement tenders have been condemned by chief Palestinian peace
negotiator Saeb Erekat, who said the decision was "a clear sign that
Israel is moving toward a major escalation."
Penunjuk perasaan Palestin
melarikan diri dari gas pemedih mata yang ditembak oleh tentera Israel semasa
pertempuran berikutan bantahan terhadap penyelesaian Yahudi Qadomem, di Kampung
Tebing Barat Kofr Qadom berhampiran Nablus 23 Mei 2014 (Palestinian protesters
run away from tear gas fired by Israeli soldiers during clashes following a
protest against the Jewish settlement of Qadomem, in the West Bank village of
Kofr Qadom near Nablus May 23, 2014 (Reuters/Abed Omar Qusini)
"Kepimpinan
Palestin akan bertindak balas terhadap ini aktiviti penyelesaian baru dengan
cara yang belum pernah berlaku," Reuters melaporkan jurucakap Presiden
Palestin Mahmoud Abbas sebagai berkata.
Tidak
semua ahli-ahli kerajaan Israel meluluskan rancangan penempatan baru. Menteri
Keadilan Tzipi Livni berkata pengumuman itu merupakan "kesilapan politik .
. . yang hanya akan menjauhkan kita daripada keupayaan untuk merekrut DUNIA
terhadap Hamas."
Penempatan
di wilayah-wilayah Israel ditawan semasa perang 1967 sentiasa menjadi batu
penghalang utama kepada rundingan damai antara Palestin dan Israel.
Pusingan
terbaru rundingan damai berlangsung sembilan bulan dan berakhir pada bulan
April, dengan ada kejayaan dicapai.
"The
Palestinian leadership will respond to this new settlement activity in an
unprece-dented manner," Reuters reported a spokesman for Palestinian
President Mahmoud Abbas as saying.
Not
all of the Israeli government members endorsed the new settlements plan.
Justice Minister Tzipi Livni said the announcement was a "political
mistake... that will only distance us from the ability to recruit the world
against Hamas."
Settlements
on the territories Israel captured during the 1967 war have always been a major
stumbling block to peace talks between Palestinians and Israel.
The
latest round of peace negotiations lasted nine months and ended in April, with
no breakthrough achieved.
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