‘Israel OKs 14k settler units in 9 months’

April 29th, 2014

FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda

The Israeli regime has approved plans for around 14,000 new settler units on the Palestinian land during the nine months of US-brokered talks with the Palestinian Authority.

The Israeli settlement watchdog, Peace Now, released the figure on Tuesday as the period of the so-called peace negotiations between the two sides formally ended.

Based on the figures quoted by Peace Now, during the talks, the Tel Aviv regime approved at least 13,851 new settler units via the advancement of plans and the publication of tenders.

“This is an unprecedented number representing an average of 50 housing units per day or 1,540 per month,” the group said.

Yariv Oppenheimer, the head of Peace Now, added that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu “broke construction records during” the nine-month talks.

Last Palestinian-Israeli talks broke down in September 2010, after Tel Aviv refused to freeze its settlement activities in the occupied West Bank.

Palestinians are seeking to create an independent state on the territories of the West Bank, East al-Quds (Jerusalem), and the besieged Gaza Strip and are demanding that Israel withdraw from the occupied Palestinian territories.

The presence and continued expansion of Israeli settlements in occupied Palestine has created a major obstacle for the efforts to establish peace in the Middle East.

More than half a million Israelis live in over 120 illegal settlements built since Israel’s occupation of the Palestinian territories of the West Bank and East al-Quds in 1967.

The United Nations and most countries regard the Israeli settlements as illegal because the territories were captured by Israel in a war in 1967 and are hence subject to the Geneva Conventions, which forbid construction on occupied lands.

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