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Israel plans to build cemetery and industrial zone in W. Bank

Sunday 3-May-2020

The Israeli occupation authority (IOA) has approved a plan to seize 140 dunums of Palestinian land in the northern West Bank to establish a huge cemetery containing 30000 burial spaces.

According to Maariv newspaper the local settlement councils of Shomron and Oranit approved a plan for the construction of the cemetery after they received the go-ahead from the upper political echelon.

In addition to the cemetery preparations are also being made to establish a new industrial zone in the area and build homes infrastructure roads and different service facilities for one million new Jewish settlers according to settler leaders in the occupied West Bank Nir Bartal and Yossi Dagan.

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