people who inhabit those lands. Various means are used bY the occupying Power to annex the areas surrounding those settlements. Through outright confiscation, forcible transfer of population or other means of pressure the land is being taken over by the occupation authorities, and the Israeli physical and demographic presence is creeping into the Arab areas. It is a process of national replacement, lnuch more fearful and radical than the traditionally known violations of human rights for people under conventional occupation. It is a process that evokes the memories of pre-1948 in Palestine, when piecemeal demographic invasion-also through agricultural-military settlements- cuhninated in the forcible and collective expulsion of the people of Palestine and their exclusion from any right to return to their homeland. 123. Nowhere is this fearful operation of national and cultural replacement more direct and immediate than in the heart of the occupied lands, in Jerusalem. Inside and outside the walls of the Old City in Arab Jerusalem large-scale confiscation of land is coupled with the physical elimination of ancient quarters for the erection, on their ruins, of Israeli structures and dwellings. This is happening all over occupied Jerusalem, Shu’fat, Sheikh Jarrah, Jabal Al-Masharif, Hai Al-Magharibah, Sharafat, Beit Hanina, Qalandia, Al-Ram, Al-Tur, Al-Nabi Samuel-all those ancient names and areas are quickly vanishing. The new Israeli quarters which are being imposed on those Arab areas would accommodate, according to an early version of the Israeli plan, no less than 122,000 Israeli Jews. It is a calculated demographic and physical strangulation of the Arab inhabitants and owners of the land, and a gradual elimination of the City’s Arab identity. It takes place within the framework of Israel’s official, if arbitrary, annexation of occupied Jerusalem in 1967. It therefore goes parallel with the other equally ruthless, legislative, cultural and economic operations undertaken by the 
**Analysis**
The text appears to be discussing the Israeli occupation of Palestinian territories, specifically the annexation of Jerusalem and the displacement of Arab inhabitants. The language used suggests a focus on the human rights and demographic implications of these actions, rather than economic or environmental issues. The text highlights the physical and demographic presence of Israeli settlers, the confiscation of land, and the elimination of ancient quarters, which implies a strong connection to the category related to human rights and displacement.

**Category**
Humanitarian aid and relief, Culture