{"id":1011,"date":"2017-10-11T14:54:37","date_gmt":"2017-10-11T14:54:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/madaresharghi.com\/israel-approves-plans-for-thousands-of-new-settlement-units-in-the-west-bank\/"},"modified":"2017-10-11T14:54:37","modified_gmt":"2017-10-11T14:54:37","slug":"israel-approves-plans-for-thousands-of-new-settlement-units-in-the-west-bank","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/madaresharghi.ir\/en\/israel-approves-plans-for-thousands-of-new-settlement-units-in-the-west-bank\/","title":{"rendered":"Israel approves plans for thousands of new settlement units in the West Bank"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu approved building plans for 3,736 new units in settlements in the occupied West Bank on Tuesday, in what activists say is part of a new wave of construction spurred by the Trump admin\u00acistration\u2019s more accommodating stance.<\/h2>\n<\/p>\n
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\n\tThe units\u00a0will be built in numerous settlements, including in\u00a0Hebron and other contentious areas,\u00a0said an Israeli official who discussed the announcement on the condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak publicly, washingtonpost.com reported.<\/p>\n

\n\tSome of the units, which include homes, communal buildings and institutions, are slated for isolated communities that sit deep inside the territory Palestinians want for a future state.<\/p>\n

\n\tMost nations consider the settlements illegal. Israel disputes that.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cThis year is looking to maybe even be a record year,\u201d said Hagit Ofran, director of Settlement Watch for the left-wing Peace Now organization, referring to the number of new units approved. \u201cIt\u2019s without doubt due to the fact that there have been changes in the White House.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tPresident Trump has said that settlements are \u201cnot a good thing for peace,\u201d but announcements of plans to build thousands of new units since his inauguration have been met with limited rebuke.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe settlements expanded during the presidency of Barack Obama, but his administration was more vocal in its opposition, calling them \u201cillegitimate\u201d and a major barrier to achieving peace and a two-state solution.<\/p>\n

\n\tIn December, Obama broke with US custom by declining to veto a\u00a0UN Security Council resolution\u00a0labeling Israeli settlements as illegal.<\/p>\n

\n\tPalestinians say that by building settlements, Israel seeks to block a contiguous Palestinian state in the West Bank.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cIsrael is bent on entrenching the military occupation and its illegal settlement enterprise, further reaffirming its intentions of displacing Palestine and replacing it with \u2018Greater Israel,\u2019 \u201d said Hanan Ashrawi, a member of the executive committee of the Palestine Liberation Organization.<\/p>\n

\n\tShe called on the \u201cglobal community to hold Israel accountable for acting outside the law before it destroys the prospects of a viable Palestinian state, peace and stability indefinitely.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tNetanyahu has repeatedly vowed this year that he will not remove a single settlement from the West Bank.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cThere will be no more uprooting of settlements in the land of Israel,\u201d he said in a speech in August at the settlement of Barkan. \u201cWe are here to stay.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tAbout 400,000 Israelis live in roughly 150 settlements in the West Bank, and an additional 200,000 Israelis live in Beit-ul-Moqaddas, which Palestinians want to become the capital of a future state.<\/p>\n

\n\tIsrael approves such projects every few months but until recently focused on approving buildings in the major settlement blocs, which it hopes to keep as part of any eventual peace settlement. Tuesday\u2019s plans include units in areas outside the blocs.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cThings we never saw before are now happening,\u201d Ofran said.<\/p>\n

\n\tWith Netanyahu\u2019s approval, the next stage is for the Israeli military authority that governs the West Bank, to give technical approval to the building plans. In some cases, land will be zoned for new homes, and in others, existing structures built without the necessary permits will be legalized.<\/p>\n

\n\tIn addition to the latest approval, plans for about 5,000 housing units have been advanced this year by a regime committee, and an additional 3,000 tenders have been issued.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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