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#Israel announces construction plans for 1,800 illegal settler homes
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Israel announced plans on Friday to build more than 1,800 new illegal settler homes in the West Bank and east Jerusalem, settlement watchdog Peace Now said. The housing ministry announced the plans for 1,076 units in annexed east Jerusalem and 801 in the occupied West Bank, Peace Now spokesman Lior Amihai told AFP. The ministry also re-issued tenders for a further 582 units in East Jerusalem that had previously failed to attract bids from contractors. “The housing ministry announced the plans this morning,” Amihai said. read more

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#Israel approves 829 settler homes in #west_bank: NGO
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Palestinians throw stones at Israeli occupation forces in the West Bank village of Qusra, after Jewish settlers from the illegal Esh Kodesh outpost tried to uproot Palestinian olive trees, on November 18, 2013. (Photo: AFP - Jaafar Ashtiyeh)

Israeli authorities have given the go-ahead for the construction of 829 new settler homes in the occupied West Bank, settlement watchdog Peace Now said on Monday. “The construction of 829 homes has been approved by a committee of the Israeli military in charge of the West Bank,” said Lior Amihai, a Peace Now official. “This is yet another move that threatens to derail the peace process,” Amihai told AFP. read (...)

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