Israel government officials said Tuesday that new plans for settler homes in one of the most contentious areas of the occupied West Bank were commissioned without authorisation and have no validity.
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An Israeli anti-settlement watchdog group says the government has quietly worked on plans to build more than 8,000 homes in a strategic section of the West Bank near Jerusalem.
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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was forced to cancel tenders for the planned settlement expansion in 2014 under worldwide pressure because it is seen as detrimental to a future Palestinian state.
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“This planning, which contradicts any possible commitment to a two-state solution, continues”, said Monday’s report, although it added that the plans could be years from fruition.
“They must be approved by the defence minister and then go through the approval process of the planning authority”, the report said.
Israelis march from the Jewish settlement of Maale Adumim to the controversial West Bank area known … “These include security reasons, a lack of building licences, being built near the settlements or across the settlement roads, being built on state lands or being built on green areas”.
An Israeli man who was stabbed three weeks ago near Hebron succumbed to his wounds on Wednesday, a spokesperson for a Jerusalem hospital said.
Israel seized the West Bank and east Jerusalem in the 1967 Six-Day War. But many Israeli leaders have portrayed them as traitors, in part because their reports and lectures are often aimed at foreign audiences.
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Later in Jerusalem, police forces fired tear gas to disperse several dozen protesters who were demanding that Israel hand over the bodies of Palestinians killed in attacks or during clashes with Israeli troops. Since a wave of unrest swept the occupied Palestinian territory at the beginning of October 2015, Israel has routinely held the bodies of Palestinians it alleges were attempting to attack Israelis when they were killed.
