Peace Now: Israel Advanced Some 14,000 West Bank Apartments During Talks
April 29, 2014 8:22am
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Israel promoted plans and tenders for nearly 14,000 housing units in the West Bank during the nine months of peace talks, the activist group Peace Now said.
An average of 50 apartments was built daily in the West Bank throughout the U.S.-backed negotiations launched last summer, the nongovernmental organization said in a report issued Tuesday.
Of the tenders issued for building new apartments, 2,248 were in the West Bank and 2,620 in eastern Jerusalem, according to Peace Now. In addition, tenders for another 1,235 were reissued for units that were not sold in previous tenders.
Other plans included 4,793 units in isolated settlements and 1,768 in settlements closer to the Green Line that separates the West Bank from pre-1967 Israel.
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