Tel Aviv
Ignoring international criticism, the Israeli government has given the green light to the construction of more than 4,400 housing units in settlements in the West Bank.
This is the highest number since Joe Biden took over the White House.
Naftali Bennett, the Prime Minister, thus took the risk not only of arousing American criticism to save his government, but also of aggravating the very strong tensions after the death of an American-Palestinian journalist killed on Wednesday during an operation Israeli military.
The revival of colonization comes at a particularly sensitive time.
The Wednesday death of Shireen Abu Akleh, of the Qatari news channel Al-Jazeera, who was shot in the head during an Israeli incursion into the Jenin refugee camp in the northern West Bank has inflamed passions and indignation.
Of Christian faith, this well-known journalist in the Arabic-speaking world, was buried in a…
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