The Jerusalem zoning committee approved a plan for a hotel to be built in Wadi al-Joz in an area that holds various stores and a Palestinian kindergarten. The stores and the school will have to be demolished in order for the hotel to be built.
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The Jerusalem zoning committee approved a plan for a hotel to be built in Wadi al-Joz in an area that holds various stores and a Palestinian kindergarten. The stores and the school will have to be demolished in order for the hotel to be built.
The plot of land is owned by the Jerusalem municipality, and the hotel will be built by the state-backed Jerusalem Development Authority.
The plan apparently allows for store owners to rent space within the hotel complex, which will include an open-air pedestrian plaza, but how the price of the rent as well as the fate of the kindergarten has not been addressed.
The timing of the committee approval comes only a couple of days after Prime Minister Netanyahu’s public refusal to heed to the US demands that Israel stops settlement development. The plot of land in question is on the Palestinian side of the Green Line, so Israeli construction is illegal according to international law.
Stubbornness from Israel has caused many to anticipate more firm action from the Obama administration. His speech in Cairo tomorrow, 4 June, will hopefully help shed light on his plans for moving forward with a plan for the Middle East.
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