Watchdog Peace Now says more than 12,000 illegal Israeli settlement homes were approved this year.
Israel has pressed forward on plans for more than 3,000 West Bank settlement homes, making 2020 one of the most prolific years for illegal settlement building, according to a watchdog group. Thursday’s approvals, along with more than 2,000 new homes approved a day earlier by a defence ministry planning committee, are part of a building boom that has gained steam during the presidency of US President Donald Trump, a staunch ally of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. It also comes months after Israel promised to put on hold plans to annex parts of the West Bank in exchange for a US-brokered normalisation deal with the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and later Bahrain. The latest approvals raised the number of settlement homes to be advanced this year to more than 12,150, according to Peace Now, the settlement watchdog group.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/10/15/israels-settlement-approvals-hit-record-high-watchdog
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