If approved, it would be the biggest advancement of illegal settlement plans since US President Joe Biden took office.
Highlights
- Interior minister Ayelet Shaked says a planning committee will convene next week to approve 4,000 homes.
- If approved, it would be the biggest advancement of illegal settlement plans since US President Joe Biden took office.
- Between 600,000 and 750,000 Israeli settlers live in at least 250 illegal settlements in the West Bank and occupied East Jerusalem.
- The White House is opposed to settlement growth because it erodes the possibility of an eventual two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
- Israel approved the construction of 3,000 settler homes in October despite another US rebuke.
- Palestinian activist says move makes Palestinians feel “more disappointed and hopeless” towards the Biden administration.