OCCUPIED JERUSALEM (PIC)– A Palestinian official report charged the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the war minister Moshe Ya’alon of endorsing a decision to construct hundreds of new settlement units in the West Bank.
The national office for the defense of land and resistance of settlement said in its weekly report on Saturday that the new settlement construction plans included 299 housing units to be built in the northern West Bank and Occupied Jerusalem.
The plans also included expanding settlements and evacuating 96 mobile homes. The report pointed out that the construction of 903 settlement units have been endorsed since the beginning of the year until the end of March.
Israeli occupation authorities meanwhile informed the Palestinian civil liaison about the decision of confiscating 2400 dunums of Salfit lands at the pretext of being classified as state property.
The report pointed to another Israeli decision preventing Palestinians from constructing housing projects in some neighborhoods in Occupied Jerusalem while at the same time endorsed Israeli settlement housing projects in the same areas.
