The village and municipal councils of occupied East Jerusalem petitioned the occupation courts against the building of a settlement tunnel under the Qalandiya military checkpoint. One of the affected lawyers, Ala Hajjeh, said that the objection is about a scheme published by the occupation earlier this year. He explained a tunnel and a large street will swallow hundreds of dunums of Palestinian towns and villages in Eastern Jerusalem, including Jaba’, Mukhamas, Burqa, al-Ram, and Kafr ‘Aqab; undermining Palestinian rights to freedom of movement. For further details, click here