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ISRAEL confirmed yesterday that it has approved hundreds of new illegal settler homes in occupied East Jerusalem after rightwingers slammed new housing for Palestinians.
An anonymous official confirmed Sunday’s reports that 800 new units would be built in the West Bank settlement of Maale Adumim and in the East Jerusalem settlements of Ramot, Gilo and Har Homa.
The plan also called for more than 600 new homes in the segregated Palestinian Beit Safafa district of East Jerusalem.
Bezalel Smotrich’s measures to extend Israeli property law into the West Bank are a continuation of a decades-long project to dispossess Palestinians and preclude statehood, argues HUGH LANNING
For those who lived in Yanoun, its disappearance is not just a local tragedy, but a stark symbol of escalating violence, displacement and impunity across the occupied West Bank, says JANE HARRIES
