74 Israeli Land Grab and Forced Population Transfer of Palestinians for consideration. This regime is implemented irrespective of the fact that, in some cases, the fencing of the Palestinian private land was performed by Israeli settlers without any kind of permit or authorization by the Israeli authorities.”267 After the Rashad Murad and others v. IDF Commander in Judea and Samaria Case from 2006, the Israeli authorities began to increasingly widen the ‘prior coordination’ regime to agricultural areas where colonist attacks on Palestinians were recurrent. “Access to private agricultural land in the vicinity of Israeli colonies has remained significantly constrained due to the fencing off of those areas, or due to settler violence. Palestinian farmers who own land close to 55 Israeli colonies have access only through ‘prior’ coordination with the Israeli Military. This restricted access has continued to undermine the agricultural livelihoods of farmers from some 90 Palestinian communities.”268 East Jerusalem ‘Alaa Salman - Beit Safafa, East Jerusalem269 On March 1990 the people of Beit Safafa were surprised to see trucks and bulldozers of the Jerusalem Municipality plowing and clearing their lands of its trees, plants and wells, without any warning. At the time, the Municipality claimed that the lands had already been confiscated in 1977 for "Public Interests". The confiscation plan mentioned construction of a public road serving the people of Beit Safafa as well as colonists. But what appeared later on, when a new project was approved in November 1990, was that this street was designated as an extension of road No. 50 (Begin Highway), which would connect the Gush Etzion colonies with Jerusalem as a highway. The length of the section crossing Beit Safafa would be 1.5 Km, 33-78 meters wide, with three lanes in each direction. The whole project, including the road, bridges and walls will seize an estimated 234 dunums of the lands of the village. The Municipality wants to transform the village into a pass road for the colonists, in which the settlers from Gush Etzion will be able to drive easily to the center of Jerusalem (and Tel Aviv as well). This will divide the village into four separate parts, since the construction of Dov Yosef Street had already divided Beit Safafa into two parts in the early 1990s. With this road, they will divide the village again; we will have small isolated blocks of houses separated by roads. The consequences of the new road will affect various aspects of the residents' lives: movement to and from both sides of the village will be seriously harmed. 267 OCHA, Special Focus: West Bank Movement and Access Update, 27. 268 OCHA, Special Focus: West Bank Movement and Access Update, 2. 269 ’Alaa Salman and Muhammad ’Alian, ‘The Village of Beit Safafa, East Jerusalem’, interview by BADIL, February 2013.