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Israel approves 186 new East Jerusalem homes | The Times of Israel
Israel moved forward Wednesday with plans to build another 186 new homes in occupied East Jerusalem, according to a Jerusalem city councilor.
The plans would see construction of 4 illegal settlements in Palestinian East Jerusalem and 146 in EastJerusalem , both of them settlements built on territory occupied by Israel.
The move comes as the United States is pressuring both the Israeli and Palestinian sides to accept Secretary of State John Kerry’s framework for peace and extend negotiations beyond the April deadline previously agreed upon.
The chief Palestinian negotiator, Saeb Erekat, said Tuesday that PA President Mahmoud Abbas had presented US President Barack Obama — during a meeting in Washington on Monday — with a “very ugly map” depicting Israeli settlement construction throughout the West Bank.
According to Erekat, over 10,000 housing units were built on Palestinian-owned territory since the US-brokered peace talks commenced last year, the Guardian reported.
“We put a map to President Obama, showed him the extent of what happened since we began [negotiations] in July,” Erekat said during a speech at the Wilson Center think tank in Washington Tuesday, displaying what was apparently Abbas’s map.
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Peace loving people....
Israel moved forward Wednesday with plans to build another 186 new homes in occupied East Jerusalem, according to a Jerusalem city councilor.
The plans would see construction of 4 illegal settlements in Palestinian East Jerusalem and 146 in EastJerusalem , both of them settlements built on territory occupied by Israel.
The move comes as the United States is pressuring both the Israeli and Palestinian sides to accept Secretary of State John Kerry’s framework for peace and extend negotiations beyond the April deadline previously agreed upon.
The chief Palestinian negotiator, Saeb Erekat, said Tuesday that PA President Mahmoud Abbas had presented US President Barack Obama — during a meeting in Washington on Monday — with a “very ugly map” depicting Israeli settlement construction throughout the West Bank.
According to Erekat, over 10,000 housing units were built on Palestinian-owned territory since the US-brokered peace talks commenced last year, the Guardian reported.
“We put a map to President Obama, showed him the extent of what happened since we began [negotiations] in July,” Erekat said during a speech at the Wilson Center think tank in Washington Tuesday, displaying what was apparently Abbas’s map.
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Peace loving people....