The Israeli government wants to expand residential areas and plans to build about 5,700 new homes in the occupied West Bank, writes the BBC.
The announcement of the expansion comes despite pressure from the United States to stop the expansion of the colonized sites. The US representative stated that Washington is worried about the development of events.
Palestinians killed four Israeli settlers in mid-June, provoking violence. Conflicts between Israelis and Palestinians have intensified again after Benjamin Netanyahu became prime minister again last year.
THE NATIONALIST-RELIGIOUS COALITION HE LEADS HAS COMMITTED TO EXPANDING HIS PRESENCE ON THE WEST COAST.
According to the information provided by Peace Now, a group opposed to the expansion of Israeli territories, in the last six months, about 13 thousand buildings have been newly built in the West Bank for the new settlers. This is three times more than last year for the whole year.
Most of the world’s countries consider the settlements created on the land seized by Israel in 1967 to be illegal from the point of view of international law.
THE US REPRESENTATIVE HAS CONDEMNED THE EXPANSION OF SETTLEMENTS,
indicating that they increase tensions and further erode mutual trust.
Israel’s new plans include an additional thousand houses in Eli. The government announced this after four Israelis were killed in the shooting. The Palestinian group Hamas has claimed responsibility for it. After the shooting, mobs of settlers went to destroy Palestinian villages, burning houses and killing one Palestinian. Authorities have condemned the violence and hooliganism, which in turn has drawn anger from the far-right forces of the Israeli government.
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