In an attempt to wrest more land in Judea and Samaria, the Palestine National Council has urged residents of Area C, under full Israeli civil and military control, to open new cemeteries outside Arab villages, thereby establishing new “facts on the ground” - in the form of graves, which the Palestinian Authority believes will be impossible for Israel to remove in the event of a final-status settlement. In the coming months, IDF sources said, the PNC plans to call on all PA Arabs to use the new cemeteries, thus increasing the population of these new “settlements.”
PA official Azmi Hishuci has been appointed to coordinate the program, and in recent days he has been visiting villages urging residents to include in their wills their desire to be buried in the new cemeteries, which will be ideally situated right outside Jewish towns in Judea and Samaria, Army Radio reported Sunday.
PA official Azmi Hishuci has been appointed to coordinate the program, and in recent days he has been visiting villages urging residents to include in their wills their desire to be buried in the new cemeteries, which will be ideally situated right outside Jewish towns in Judea and Samaria, Army Radio reported Sunday.