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Huge batch of approvals for West Bank settlements

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Published: 11 January 2018

Last updated: 4 March 2024

THE CIVIL ADMINISTRATION'S top planning council is expected this week to approve the construction of hundreds of settler homes across the West Bank.

The council is slated to give final approval for the construction of over 300 housing units in settlements including Susya, Petzael, Ariel, Alfei Menashe and Oranit.

FULL STORY Israel set to approve hundreds of new settlement homes in West Bank (Haaretz)

Photo: Palestinian construction workers at the site of a new structure in Ma'aleh Adumim on June 22, 2017. Gil Cohen-Magen

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