JERUSALEM, February 22, 2018(WAFA) – The Israeli municipality of West Jerusalem approved on Wednesday the construction of 3000 new housing units that will be built on occupied Palestinian territory in an area to the south of Jerusalem, Israeli media reports said on Thursday.
They said that the new units will be built on 280 dunums of land, most of which is privately owned by Palestinians, located between the illegal settlement of Gilo, north of Bethlehem, and the Tunnels Road that connects Jerusalem city center to the Gush Etzion settlement bloc and Hebron to the south.
The new units will be used to increase the number of Jewish settlers in the occupied Palestinian territories, particularly around Jerusalem on land Palestinians want to be part of their future independent state. The new facts on the ground would deem any future Palestinian-Israeli peace settlement impossible.
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