The Israeli authorities approved the construction of new settlement units in the illegal Israeli settlement of Efrat, in southern Bethlehem in the occupied West Bank.
Activist Hassan Breijieh said today that Israeli settlers of Efrat rejected a plan, previously approved by the Israeli Civil Administration’s Higher Planning Council, to construct 40 new housing units in the settlement and demanded the construction of 106 units; their demand has been approved by the council.
The Israeli authorities approved the construction of new settlement units in the illegal Israeli settlement of Efrat, in southern Bethlehem in the occupied West Bank. https://t.co/QwOCGw2SgC
— sinbad (@sinbad_W) August 21, 2018
Breijieh pointed out that settlement expansion will be at the expense of those landowners and farmers of the Al-Khader and Artas villages in southern Bethlehem district.
Mike Huckabee has symbolically taken part in the building of an Israeli settlement in the West Bank. The former governor of Arkansas laid bricks and spread cement in a new neighborhood in Efrat. He said he may one day "purchase a holiday home" there. https://t.co/xVI1KtmqGO
— Anabelle ❀ (@DemocracyJourno) August 3, 2018
All settlements in the West Bank are illegal under international law however their construction and expansion have been pursued as a policy by the State of Israel since it occupied the territory in the 1967 Six-Day War, along with the Gaza Strip, Jerusalem, the Golan Heights and the Sinai Peninsula.
BETHLEHEM, https://t.co/0vLGuoEtUR — The Israeli authorities approved the construction of new settlement units in the illegal Israeli settlement of Efrat, in southern Bethlehem in the occupied West… https://t.co/RWRoRteyhA
— فلسطين (@AlAqsaIntifada) August 20, 2018
Israeli human rights organization B’Tselem states that, as of the end of 2015, there were 127 Israeli government-sanctioned settlements in the West Bank (not including occupied East Jerusalem and Hebron). When combined with 100 non-recognized outposts and 15 Israeli neighborhoods inside the Jerusalem Municipality, these settlements are inhabited by approximately half a million illegal settlers.
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