Gaza, Alray - Israeli authorities are adopting a new approach to appropriate Palestinian lands of the 1948 occupied territories, through installing a gas pipeline running from the lands of the Tur'an villages through Kafr Kanna and ending in al-Mashad village in the Lower Galilee.
Spokesman of the popular committee to stop the installation of the pipeline Radwan Hassan told WAFA that “passing the gas pipeline through our lands is a new way to displace the Palestinian people from their lands, and eventually confiscate thousands of dunums,”
“The pipeline will serve Phoenicia America-Israel Ltd for glass production, set up on Kafr Kanna and al-Mashad villages’ lands that Israel expropriated. The property tax on Phoenicia is paid to the municipal council of Ntseri Illit,” Hassan said.
He explained that “installing the pipeline would deprive Palestinian landowners of cultivating their lands or using them in the furture,”
“It would further pose a threat to the lives of the owners of the lands sidelining the main road which connects Haifa to the North,” he warned.
Hassan said more than 83 objection petitions were filed to Israel’s planning and building committee which has only accepted one of them, so we, in the popular committee, decided to demonstrate along with the Palestinian landowners in weekly protests against the plan.
"We have been protesting for the fourteenth week near the lands; our people in Ni'lin and Bil'in inspired us to persevere and be patient to continue the struggle,” he said, pointing out that “the committee will resort to court action to confront the plan."










