Just Before Netanyahu Meets with Obama, Announcement of Building 2,700 Illegal Israeli Settlement Units on Palestinian Lands

Just Before Netanyahu Meets with Obama, Announcement of Building 2,700 Illegal Israeli Settlement Units on Palestinian Lands

Editor's Note:

Like he did to the US Vice President, Joe Biden, before, Netanyahu is insulting the US President, Barack Obama just before meeting him this week. The Israeli occupation apartheid government has announced to build more illegal Israeli settlements on Palestinian lands.

Israel to build 2,700 settlement units when alleged freeze ends next month

[ 05/07/2010 - 10:02 AM ]

NAZARETH, (PIC)--

The Israeli Haaretz newspaper reported Monday that there are plans to build 2,700 housing units in West Bank settlements as soon as the nominal settlement freeze ends next September.

The newspaper also noted that the Israeli municipal council in occupied Jerusalem will approve next week a plan to build 60 settlement units north of occupied Jerusalem.

It quoted heads of settlements as saying that they started to process legal documents necessary for the resumption of settlement expansion on September 27.

A report issued by B'Tselem, a human rights organization, said that the settlements in the West Bank have tripled since the signing of the Oslo agreement in 1993.

The report revealed that the Jewish settlements effectively control nearly 42 per cent of the West Bank while the Israeli government still encourages settlers to move to settlements, the thing which prevents the establishment of a Palestinian state.

B'Tselem said the settlements, a major stumbling block in now-stalled peace talks, have resulted in extensive Israeli human rights violations against the Palestinians.

It said Israeli treatment of Palestinians in the West Bank was reminiscent of the old apartheid regime in South Africa and called on Israel to stop granting incentives to Israelis to move to settlements, and to dismantle them.

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