Israeli nod for Jerusalem settler homes
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ISRAELI authorities yesterday approved building permits for 566 settler homes in annexed east Jerusalem, plans that had been postponed until US President Donald Trump took office, the city’s deputy mayor said.
Meir Turjeman said city officials approved the plans that had been previously postponed at Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s request in the wake of a UN Security Council resolution in December against Israeli settlement building.
Turjeman said plans for some 11,000 other homes were also in process in east Jerusalem, though he did not say when they could be moved forward.
The new permits are for homes in the settlement neighborhoods of Pisgat Zeev, Ramot and Ramat Shlomo, according to Turjeman, who also heads the planning committee that approved them.
“The rules of the game have changed with Donald Trump’s arrival as president,” he said. “We no longer have our hands tied as in the time of Barack Obama. Now we can finally build.”
The city said the construction of 105 Palestinian homes in east Jerusalem had also been approved. Palestinians in east Jerusalem and the occupied West Bank face extremely difficult odds in having construction approved by Israeli authorities, who routinely demolish structures they deem illegal.
“We’ve been through eight difficult years of Obama, who pressured us to freeze construction,” Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat said in the statement.
“I hope that era is over, and from this moment on we will continue to build and develop Jerusalem for the good of its residents, Jews and Arabs as one, in order to strengthen sovereignty over a united Jerusalem as the capital of Israel.”
Palestinian presidency spokesman Nabil Abu Rudeina said the approvals were in violation of last month’s UN Security Council resolution.
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