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Friday, 2 August 2019

Israel announces thousands of new settler units in West Bank

Press TV

Israel has reportedly approved plans for the construction of 6,000 new settler units in the occupied West Bank, in flagrant defiance of international outcry over the Tel Aviv regime’s settlement expansion policies in the Palestinian territories.

Israeli officials said on Wednesday Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s cabinet had approved permits for 6,000 new units for settlers in the so-called Area C of the West Bank.

The area is the largest division in the occupied territory as it comprises 60 percent of the land, and is under full Israeli military control.

The Palestinian leadership rejected the construction announcement, with the Palestinian Foreign Ministry calling it “evidence of the dark colonial mentality of the rules in Israel and which ignores all United Nations resolutions, international law and the signed agreements.” 

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