Israeli bulldozers began, on Monday, extensive land‑clearing and leveling operations around Qalandia Refugee Camp and the nearby town of Kafr ‘Aqab, north of occupied Jerusalem, as part of preparations for a new colonial road serving the illegal Israeli colonies built on Palestinian lands in the area.
Eyewitnesses stated that the bulldozers are accelerating excavation and earth‑removal work within the colonial project known as “Road 45”, a route designed to link several illegal colonies north of Jerusalem and east of Ramallah with occupied Jerusalem through a network of settler‑only bypass roads.
They added that the project is being constructed on more than 280 dunams of Palestinian land illegally seized by the occupation, forming part of broader colonial plans aimed at reinforcing geographic continuity between the colonies and expanding them at the expense of Palestinian territory.
The new colonial road is intended to further entrench the isolation of occupied Jerusalem from its Palestinian surroundings in the Jerusalem and Ramallah districts, while strengthening the network of settler‑only roads that connect the colonies to one another, serving Israel’s annexation and expansion agenda in the area.
