Israel Greenlights Plans For 1,000 Settler Homes In Annexed East Jerusalem
Agence France-Presse
27 Oct 2014 at 10:32 ET
Israel has advanced the planning of more than 1,000 new Jewish settler homes in annexed east Jerusalem, an official said Monday, sparking a Palestinian warning of an “explosion” of violence.
“The government has decided to advance the planning of more than 1,000 units in Jerusalem — roughly 400 in Har Homa and about 600 in Ramat Shlomo,” the official in Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office told AFP, referring to two existing east Jerusalem settlements.
He did not elaborate and declined to comment on the likely political and diplomatic impact of such a move at a time when Palestinians and the international community are already incensed at latest settler moves in the east Jerusalem neighbourhood of Silwan, where there have been almost nightly clashes for months.
Jibril Rajoub, a senior member of Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas’s Fatah movement, warned of violent consequences likely to follow the latest settlement plans.
“Such unilateral acts will lead to an explosion,” he told a gathering of foreign journalists in the West Bank city of Ramallah.
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