"Israel plans to build thousands of settlement homes near Jerusalem, in effect expanding city's borders and taking Palestinian land in West Bank, activists say. Palestine's Jerusalem governorate has denounced an Israeli plan to illegally build thousands of settlement homes, warning it would essentially redraw the city's boundaries and covertly annex parts of the occupied West Bank."
"The development plan, unveiled by the Israeli state this month, calls for the construction of 2,570 housing units formally tied to Israel's Geva Binyamin (Adam) settlement, located northeast of Jerusalem in the occupied West Bank. list of 4 itemsend of list But the designated land sits apart from Geva Binyamin, which is separated from it by a highway and a security wall."
"The Israeli rights organisation Peace Now said it was a backhanded way of trying to annex the West Bank. The new settlement will function in every way as a neighbourhood of Jerusalem, and its designation as a neighbourhood' of the Adam settlement is merely a pretext intended to conceal a move that effectively applies Israeli sovereignty to areas of the West Bank, Peace Now said."
A new Israeli development plan calls for 2,570 housing units formally tied to the Geva Binyamin (Adam) settlement northeast of Jerusalem in the occupied West Bank. The designated land is separated from Geva Binyamin by a highway and security wall and lies closer to Neve Yaakov in occupied East Jerusalem, which would effectively expand Jerusalem's boundaries. The Palestinian Authority's Jerusalem governorate denounced the project as illegal and a covert annexation. The Israeli rights group Peace Now described the designation as a pretext to apply Israeli sovereignty to West Bank areas. Final approval by the Civil Administration's Higher Planning Committee is still required.
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