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Israel Approves 454 New Settlement Homes | Al Jazeera America
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has approved the marketing of land for the construction of 454 homes in two settlements in occupied East Jerusalem, a government official said on Tuesday. The announcement, seen as a provocation by Palestinians, comes amid weeks of escalating violence between Palestinians and Israeli forces, which began in early October over increasing visits by Jews to the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound, also known asTemple Mount, in Jerusalem.
The building of 436 of the housing units, in the settlement of Ramat Shlomo on land Israel occupied in a 1967 war, was approved in 2012. But the project was later frozen after criticism from Washington and the European Union. In 2010, when the construction plans for Ramat Shlomo were first announced, U.S. Vice President Joe Biden publicly scolded Israel while he was visiting Jerusalem.
The government official, who asked not to be identified, said Netanyahu gave the go-ahead on Monday to market the homes in Ramat Shlomo and another 18 in Ramot.
In a statement, the Palestinian Authority condemned the Israeli plan and settlement-building as a whole as a "flagrant violation of international law" aimed at preventing the establishment of a Palestinian state.
Under international law, all Jewish settlements in the West Bank are considered illegal. Ramat Shlomo and Ramot are in a part of the occupied West Bank that Israel annexed to Jerusalem in 1967 in a move that has not won international recognition.
News of the decision came a week after the European Union (EU) decided to start labeling Israeli products made in the West Bank — a move that shows the bloc's disapproval over Israel's expansion of illegal settlements. The move requires that producers must explicitly label products that come from settlements built on land occupied by Israel if they are sold in the EU.
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There are plenty of Jewish only community centers and schools in the United States, maybe we should begin demolishing them and converting them to 'Arab only' 'settlements'.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has approved the marketing of land for the construction of 454 homes in two settlements in occupied East Jerusalem, a government official said on Tuesday. The announcement, seen as a provocation by Palestinians, comes amid weeks of escalating violence between Palestinians and Israeli forces, which began in early October over increasing visits by Jews to the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound, also known asTemple Mount, in Jerusalem.
The building of 436 of the housing units, in the settlement of Ramat Shlomo on land Israel occupied in a 1967 war, was approved in 2012. But the project was later frozen after criticism from Washington and the European Union. In 2010, when the construction plans for Ramat Shlomo were first announced, U.S. Vice President Joe Biden publicly scolded Israel while he was visiting Jerusalem.
The government official, who asked not to be identified, said Netanyahu gave the go-ahead on Monday to market the homes in Ramat Shlomo and another 18 in Ramot.
In a statement, the Palestinian Authority condemned the Israeli plan and settlement-building as a whole as a "flagrant violation of international law" aimed at preventing the establishment of a Palestinian state.
Under international law, all Jewish settlements in the West Bank are considered illegal. Ramat Shlomo and Ramot are in a part of the occupied West Bank that Israel annexed to Jerusalem in 1967 in a move that has not won international recognition.
News of the decision came a week after the European Union (EU) decided to start labeling Israeli products made in the West Bank — a move that shows the bloc's disapproval over Israel's expansion of illegal settlements. The move requires that producers must explicitly label products that come from settlements built on land occupied by Israel if they are sold in the EU.
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There are plenty of Jewish only community centers and schools in the United States, maybe we should begin demolishing them and converting them to 'Arab only' 'settlements'.
. While the truth is that Israel is the head of the terror !!
