Kol Ha’ir newspaper on Saturday revealed an Israeli plan to construct a new settler neighborhood to the southeast of Gilo settlement east of Occupied Jerusalem.
The Hebrew newspaper reported that the project named “Green Gilo” will be implemented by the settlement group Manos and will include 3000 housing units.
The paper pointed out that the plan has passed the final organization stages and that Manos group has put up the settlement units for sale with each unit costing 350000 shekels.
Manos has announced that it seeks to establish a new network of roads and a light rail system in an attempt to attract more settlers to the area.
In a related context Kol Ha’ir said that another construction project is being implemented in Pisgat Ze’ev settlement by Euro-Israel company where four 11-floor buildings containing 122 housing units will be built.
Euro-Israel is currently in charge of several settlement projects in Occupied Jerusalem including 146 housing units in Pisgat Ze’ev distributed in two projects 122 in Har Homa 78 in Neve Yaakov 32 in Ariel and 96 in Modi’in Illit.
