Israel’s Channel 2 has revealed that the Jerusalem district planning and building committee would convene to discuss giving approval for a plan to build 1440 housing units in Ramat Shlomo settlement north of the occupied holy city.
The Israeli municipality recently submitted this plan to the district committee to obtain approval.
The Israeli government had frozen this settlement plan during recent years following pressures from the outgoing US administration of Barack Obama.
According to the Israeli channel the planned housing project which will be carried out on 70 dunums of annexed Palestinian land is considered the biggest frozen settlement plan that has been activated following and as a consequence of the recent US presidential election results.
The channel also pointed out that the Israeli authorities in Jerusalem at the behest of the Israeli government intend to activate all frozen settlement construction plans and to build in new areas where they had refrained from building in during the past eight years when the administration of Obama was in office.
