The Israeli government is planning to establish a new Jewish neighborhood consisting of 10000 settlement units near the industrial area of Atarot settlement near Qalandiya checkpoint to the north of Jerusalem.
The Israeli Public Broadcasting Corporation Kan on Thursday revealed that Netanyahu’s government is working to speed up the coordination process between the ministries of Housing and Finance to allocate millions of shekels for this project.
Israel’s Construction Minister Yoav Galant said that this is going to be the first budget invested in the project that will be implemented in an “important settlement”.
Peace Now movement said that the plan is “insane both politically and strategically” describing it as an attempt to place a wedge into the heart of an urban area where hundreds of thousands of Palestinians live.
The Movement added that since the establishment of Har Homa neighborhood in the 1990s no new Israeli neighborhood has been built beyond the Green Line in Jerusalem.
