Guest World News Posted April 29, 2014 Share Posted April 29, 2014 Israel pursued plans for nearly 14,000 new homes for settlers in the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem during now-suspended peace talks with the Palestinians, an Israeli watchdog group said on Tuesday. Peace Now, which monitors and opposes Israeli settlement of land Palestinians seek for a state, said Israel finalized 4,868 home construction tenders in the nine months since the talks began - effectively a four-fold increase compared with recent years. In a new report that coincided with the passing of an April 29 deadline for a peace accord, the group also said Israeli authorities had processed plans, in various stages of approval, for another 8,983 settler homes while the U.S.-sponsored negotiations were under way. More than 500,000 Israelis have settled among 2.5 million Palestinians in the West Bank and East Jerusalem, areas captured by Israel, along with the Gaza Strip, in the 1967 Middle East war. Continue reading... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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