JERUSALEM, February 27. 2012 (WAFA) – Israel’s railway authority is planning to build a 475-kilometer rail system network in the occupied West Bank, the Israeli newspaper Haaretz reported Monday.

The French news agency, AFP, quoted an unnamed railway official as confirming the report, saying the plan was prepared at the request of the Israeli Ministry of Transportation.

“We have presented a plan sought by the transport ministry, but for the moment nothing has been done on the ground,” the official told AFP.

According to Haaretz and based on a map it got, the rail system will have 11 lines running  from Hebron in the south to Jenin in the north, and linking the Jordan Valley in the east with the Green Line bordering Israel in the west.

M.S.