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Israeli panel approves West Bank settlement plan: reports
Source: Reuters
WORLD NEWS | Tue Jun 6, 2017 | 11:23am EDT
Israeli panel approves West Bank settlement plan: reports
By Ori Lewis | JERUSALEM
An Israeli panel approved plans on Tuesday for the first new Jewish settlement in the occupied West Bank in two decades, Israeli media reports said, drawing Palestinian condemnation and defying repeated international appeals to avoid such measures.
If confirmed, the plans, which media said also envisage the construction of some 1,800 other settler homes in the West Bank, are likely to deliver a further serious blow to efforts to revive the moribund Israeli-Palestinian peace process.
A spokeswoman for the military-run Civil Administration in the West Bank of which the panel is a part declined to comment on the reports.
Peace Now, an Israeli anti-settlement group that monitors settlement activity in the West Bank, could not immediately confirm the reports but said the panel was due to discuss further building plans for the occupied territory on Wednesday.
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Israeli panel approves West Bank settlement plan: reports
By Ori Lewis | JERUSALEM
An Israeli panel approved plans on Tuesday for the first new Jewish settlement in the occupied West Bank in two decades, Israeli media reports said, drawing Palestinian condemnation and defying repeated international appeals to avoid such measures.
If confirmed, the plans, which media said also envisage the construction of some 1,800 other settler homes in the West Bank, are likely to deliver a further serious blow to efforts to revive the moribund Israeli-Palestinian peace process.
A spokeswoman for the military-run Civil Administration in the West Bank of which the panel is a part declined to comment on the reports.
Peace Now, an Israeli anti-settlement group that monitors settlement activity in the West Bank, could not immediately confirm the reports but said the panel was due to discuss further building plans for the occupied territory on Wednesday.
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Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/us-israel-palestinians-settlement-idUSKBN18X1W2