Israel’s defence minister says he plans to seek approval next week for the construction of some 2500 new homes in Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank.
Avigdor Lieberman, writing on Twitter on Thursday, said a regional planning board would be asked to designate 1400 of the housing units for immediate construction.
Settlements are one of the most heated issues in efforts to restart Israeli-Palestinian peace talks, frozen since 2014.
Palestinians want the West Bank for a future state, along with East Jerusalem and the Gaza Strip. Most countries consider settlements that Israel has built in territory it captured in the 1967 Middle East war to be illegal.
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