Zionist plan to build 60,000 settlement units in Jerusalem


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[ 06/11/2011 – 04:57 PM ]

NAZARETH, (PIC)– Hebrew media sources revealed a strategic plan of the occupation municipality in Jerusalem which aims to build more than 60,000 new settler residential units in Jerusalem over the next 20 years.

Maariv said on Sunday that a Jerusalem municipality document shows that 60718 new residential unit, most of them (53,000) will be built in settlements in East Jerusalem.

According to the document, most of the land for building these units lies in East Jerusalem. 24,000 units have already been approved by the planning committee, only 3,500 of them will be built in West Jerusalem. Planning applications have been submitted for another 13,500 more units awaiting approval. Plans for another 23,266 more units are being prepared.

According to data in the document the land on which these units will be built lie in north eastern Jerusalem, such as Besgat Zeiv settlement, Nevieh Yacub settlement and Arab suburbs: Beit Hanian and Shefat, The building of more than 10,000 units will start straight away, planning permissions for half of them have already been obtained and the other half still awaiting permission.

According to municipality data, 10,934 units will be built, half of them approved and they will be built in Silwan and in the old city.

Source and more at the Palestinian Information Center





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