ACAP "Watchdog" Function

Publishing date: 11/12/2009

ACAP continuously monitors and follows-up on various planning decisions, evaluating them, and making legal objections as necessary, by informing local Arab authorities regarding the plan and taking necessary actions.
Here are some of these follow-ups:

The approval on the plans of Road 6 and the railroad in the south:
The ACAP has sent a letter on 25.9.2009 to Mr.Amram Kalaaji the mayor of Abu Basma, informing him of the decision taken by the planning committee regarding the plans for Road 6 and the railroad.
The decision, that was a made after debating the impact of the plan and requested by the local council of Lahavim, states that the plan should be approved “as is”. This decision ignores the existence of Arab Bedouin villages in the course of the railroad. since the section between Shokit junction and Nevatim junction runs through the unrecognized village of Beer Alhamam. And the section between Nevatim Junction and Negev junction runs through the unrecognized village of Beer Almashash. And the course in this section was deviated so it can run through the unrecognized village of Wadi Alnaim. And the towns of Allakia, Tel Alsabia and Abu Basma will be affected by this plan since the course runs close to their jurisdictional areas and thus limiting their future development.
 
Establishing a new town for Orthodox Jews in the Negev
The ACAP has sent a letter to Mr. Salim Abu Rabia the mayor of Ksayfi informing him of a session that will take place on 29.9.2009 in the planning committee regarding the establishing of a new town for Orthodox Jews near the Tel-Arad junction. The town is will have 750,4 Acres and will house 50,000 people. The ACAP has exposed the existence of such a plan when it published an article on the new plan of Harish.
 
Detailed plans for forests in the north close to jurisdictional areas of Arab towns and near it:
The ACAP sent letters to the local councils of Arabi, Dier Hanna, Kaukab, Kufr Manda and Eilaboun informing them of plans for the forests of Har Ahim and Massad-Arbil that will include areas near or inside these towns’ jurisdictional areas. The ACAP has offerd these councils its help studying the effects of such plans.