(Ahlul Bayt News Agency) - The Israeli left-wing group Peace Now said that the settlement construction in the West Bank rose during six months to 70 percent, mostly in outposts built on Palestinian-owned lands.In a report released on Thursday, Peace Now said the number of Jewish settlers increased by three times more than before and most of them live in big settlement blocs.It added that the Israeli government had legalized three settlement and intends to legalize another one.Palestinian reports had already indicated that the Israeli occupation authority had approved the building of 4, 000 settlement units in different areas of east Jerusalem since it started its peace negotiations with the Palestinian authority.The reports noted that this number of settlement units does not include settlement expansion activities taking place in the western part of Jerusalem./149
16 October 2013 - 20:30
News ID: 473220
Israeli anti settler group “Peace Now”, reported that new settlement construction starts rose by 70 percent in the first half of 2013 compared with a year earlier, describing the increase as "drastic".
