Israel has already killed 2 Palestinians in 2011 - looks good to beat 2010 record

PLO report tallies Israel's 2010 record of building settlements, demolishing arab houses, and arresting (and even killing) protesters



Slowly but surely, Israel is trying to "ethnically cleanse" Jerusalem of its Palestinian inhabitants. It wants to make Jerusalem an Israeli-Jewish city. It doesn't seem to care how many it has to arrest or kill to do it. Palestinians continue to resist - for the most part peacefully.

In 2010, Israelis killed 107 Palestinians, arrested 4,000 others, and have demolished 167 homes, according to the Foreign Affairs Department of the PLO.

In addition, the Israeli authorities approved the construction of 16,479 illegal new housing units in Palestinian territories last year.

In occupied East Jerusalem, the Israelis have adopted an unprecedentedly violent policy, demolishing 63 Palestinian houses, and forcing other 15 families out of their properties under the full protection of the Israeli police, and border security.

The Israeli authorities have issued 1,334 demolition orders to Palestinian families in occupied East Jerusalem during 2010, targeting mainly the Arab neighbourhood of Silwan.

In addition, 10,000 housing units for Jews have been approved in East Jerusalem, where the construction of 1,200 housing units have already started.

The PLO statement warned that 125,000 Palestinian residents of East Jerusalem face threats of losing their residencies in the holy city, where the Palestinian residents have no civil rights, and are not provided with any kind of facilities and services.

The statement said that Jewish colonists have burned the Holy Bible Church in occupied Jerusalem, and burned three mosques in different parts of Jerusalem and the West Bank, and successfully asked for demolition orders for two mosques.