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ISRAEL confirmed yesterday that it has approved hundreds of new illegal settler homes in occupied East Jerusalem after rightwingers slammed new housing for Palestinians.
An anonymous official confirmed Sunday’s reports that 800 new units would be built in the West Bank settlement of Maale Adumim and in the East Jerusalem settlements of Ramot, Gilo and Har Homa.
The plan also called for more than 600 new homes in the segregated Palestinian Beit Safafa district of East Jerusalem.
Police crackdowns on Israeli peace demonstrators combined with court rulings and settler organisations are designed to strip Palestinian families of their homes and land. The Israeli state has tried to silence both Israelis and Palestinians who resist, according to Zo HaDerekh (This Is The Way) the Communist Party of Israel’s Hebrew-language weekly
Labour's Emily Thornberry calls on PM to ban goods from Israel-held Palestinian territory
Bezalel Smotrich’s measures to extend Israeli property law into the West Bank are a continuation of a decades-long project to dispossess Palestinians and preclude statehood, argues HUGH LANNING
