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Israel plans to build more than 1,300 new homes in the West Bank

2021-10-24T14:31:42.366Z


The United Nations has called it illegal, but Israel is pushing ahead with the construction of settler homes in the West Bank. Now the government has published tenders for hundreds of new housing units.


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A wall separates East Jerusalem from the Palestinian town of Abu Dis (archive image)

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There are always conflicts between settlers and Palestinian residents, but the Israeli government has announced that it will build more than 1,300 new settler homes in the West Bank.

The housing ministry announced on Sunday that "tenders for 1355 residential units" had been published.

They are to be built in seven existing settlements.

The Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank are illegal under international law.

About 2.8 million Palestinians and 475,000 Israeli settlers live in the West Bank.

The authorities had already approved the approval of 2,000 residential units in settlements in the West Bank in August.

The Israel Defense Ministry was expected to give its final approval this week.

It was the first such decision by the new Israeli government under Prime Minister Naftali Bennett.

Bennett has been the Israeli head of government since June and leads a broad coalition alliance to which both far-left and far-right parties belong.

The 49-year-old Prime Minister is considered a fierce opponent of a two-state solution in the Middle East conflict.

His Jamina party has many supporters among Israeli settlers in the West Bank.

Despite Bennett's personal positions, his government, unlike his predecessor Benjamin Netanyahu, is trying to bring about rapprochement with the Palestinian leadership in the conflict.

Only recently, for the first time since 2009, the Israeli authorities issued registration permits for Palestinians without documents in the West Bank.

In the summer, the US ice cream company Ben & Jerry's announced that it would stop ice cream sales in the West Bank and East Jerusalem in order to demonstrate against the settlement policy.

Shortly before, Norway's largest pension fund, KLP, announced that it was selling shares in 16 companies because of their links to Jewish settlements in the West Bank.

kha / AFP / AP

Source: spiegel

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