[ 07/03/2010 - 04:59 PM ]
OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC)-- The UN office for the coordination of humanitarian affairs (OCHA) revealed Sunday that the number of housing units which Israel built in West Bank settlements rose during the last three months of 2009 compared to the previous year.
In its weekly report, OCHA said it obtained confirmed information from the Israeli central bureau of statistics about the ongoing settlement activities in the West Bank.
According to this information, the number of housing units Israel embarked on building in the last quarter of 2009, except the eastern part of occupied Jerusalem, amounted to 593 units, the thing which confirmed that Israel did not freeze partially its settlement activities as it claimed in November 2009.
The report also said that the Israeli municipal council in Jerusalem issued demolition decisions against eight Palestinian residential buildings in Silwan neighborhood at the pretext of unlicensed construction.
It noted that 90 other homes in the same neighborhood are also threatened with demolition because of Israeli orders issued in previous years in this regard. These demolition orders will lead to the displacement of 1,000 Palestinians.
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