The Zionist entity could advance plans this week for thousands more settlement homes in occupied east Al-Quds (Jerusalem) in defiance of a landmark UN resolution demanding an end to such activity.
It would mark the first such approvals since Friday’s UN Security Council vote demanding a halt to Israeli settlement building in Palestinian territory.
The resolution, which passed after the United States took the rare move of abstaining, infuriated Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu who lashed out at President Barack Obama and vowed not to abide by it.
On Wednesday, an Al-Quds ‘planning’ committee is to discuss issuing building permits for 618 housing units in the mainly Palestinian eastern sector of the city, according to the Ir Amim NGO, which monitors settlement building.
Jerusalem deputy mayor Meir Turjeman, who also heads the committee, has reportedly also spoken of seeking to advance plans for some 5,600 other units at earlier stages in the process.
On Tuesday he told AFP there were no plans to call off discussions in response to the UN vote. The hundreds of building permits were on the agenda before the resolution was passed.
“We’ll discuss everything that’s on the table in a serious manner,” he said.
And on his Facebook page Turjeman: “I’m not concerned by the UN or anything else trying to dictate our actions in Jerusalem.
Source: AFP
December 28, 2016
Zionist forces detained 10 Palestinians from the West Bank in raids, five of them from the Jenin area, the Palestinian Prisoner’s Society (PPS) said on Wednesday.
It said among the five arrested from the Jenin area, two were former prisoners, one of them had served eight years in prison and the other four years, WAFA reported.
The PPS said three Palestinians were detained during a large-scale army operation in the Northern West Bank city of Nablus.
Two more from the Ramallah area were also detained, one of them a 17-year-old minor.
Source: Agencies
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