The Israeli authorities are set on Monday to approve the construction of 300 new settlement units which comes within the framework of a project to expand Gilo settlement to the south of Occupied Jerusalem.

According to Hebrew media sources the so-called Planning and Building Committee is expected to grant building permits to the Jewish associations which will oversee the expansion operation that will be carried out on Palestinian lands belonging to al-Walaja village.

Despite the fact that the Palestinian lands which the settlement project targets are privately-owned by residents of al-Walaja village the Israeli authorities continue to distribute demolition notices against Palestinian houses there for allegedly being unlicensed.

Israel’s Channel 10 has revealed that the Israeli authorities will approve next Wednesday a plan to build 770 housing units in Gilo settlement southeast of Occupied Jerusalem.

The plan also includes the building of a synagogue in the settlement.

The Israeli government was intending to execute this plan in 2013 but it refrained from doing so following US pressures according to the Channel.

Several settlement projects will be carried out in the near future in areas between Bethlehem and east Jerusalem the Channel pointed out.