Israel’s Construction and Housing Ministry is preparing a new plan to build hundreds of new settlement units in the occupied West Bank.
Yedioth Ahronoth said that the plan includes the construction of over 700 housing units in Jerusalem in Ramot and Pisgat Ze’ev settlements.
Other 260 housing units will be built in the settlements of Alfei Menashe Immanuel Adam Beit Aryeh and Ma’ale Efraim according to the Hebrew newspaper.
Both the Israeli government and the Planning and Building Committee of the so-called Civil Administration have approved the new plans.
Israel’s Minister of Finance Moshe Kahlon said that the settlement construction has been stepped up over the past four years. “Young couples can have apartments whenever they wish now” he added.
Kahlon said that more settlement construction will be carried out everywhere in the occupied Palestinian territories including the West Bank and Jerusalem.
