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Israel poised to build thousands of new settler homes

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Israeli authorities on Tuesday rejected a plan to build around 800 new settler homes in annexed east Jerusalem, but were expected to approve more constructions elsewhere, triggering the ire of Washington. Settlement watchdog Peace Now told AFP that authorities were due to endorse a far larger project on Wednesday and…

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Israel to build 3,000 settlements after Palestinian U.N. recognition

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Israel is to build 3,000 new settler homes in east Jerusalem and the West Bank after the Palestinians won recognition as a non-member state at the United Nations, an Israeli official told AFP on Friday. Asked if he could confirm a report that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had decided…

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E.U. ‘regrets’ Israeli settlement plan

High Representative of the EU for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Catherine Ashton has criticised Israel's plan to build hundreds of homes in annexed east Jerusalem. File photo via AFP.

The European Union’s foreign policy chief has criticised Israel’s plan to build hundreds of homes in annexed east Jerusalem and called for it to hold fresh talks with the Palestinians. Catherine Ashton “deeply regrets” the Israeli interior ministry decision to back the expansion of the Gilo settlement by 797 units,…

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Clashes in east Jerusalem over anti-Islam film

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JERUSALEM — Hundreds of Palestinians protesting against an anti-Islam film clashed with Israeli border police in east Jerusalem on Tuesday, hurling stones and firebombs at a checkpoint, the military and reporters said. The protesters marched from the Shuafat camp toward a crossing that connects east and west Jerusalem where they…

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Decades after ‘unification’, Jerusalem is divided

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Israelis this week mark Jerusalem Day, celebrating the “reunification” of the Holy City, but 45 years on, the contrast between quality of life in the Jewish west and the Arab east remain stark. The status of Jerusalem is one of the most sensitive issues in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Israel captured…

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Palestinian children die in W.Bank crash

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At least eight Palestinian children from east Jerusalem were killed on Thursday when their school bus was hit by a truck on a road in the West Bank, Israeli police said. “There are between eight and 10 Palestinian children dead, aged between 10 and 16, and more than 30 injured…

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Israel plans more than 1,000 new settlement homes

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JERUSALEM — Israel’s housing and construction ministry said on Sunday it was to publish tenders for the construction of more than 1,000 housing units in east Jerusalem and the West Bank. According to the ministry’s website, the tenders are for 500 new units in the east Jerusalem neighbourhood of Har…

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EU ‘regrets’ new E. Jerusalem settler homes

BRUSSELS — EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton on Friday expressed her “deep regret” over Israel’s approval of more new settler homes in east Jerusalem. The European Union “has repeatedly called on Israel to end all settlement activity, including natural growth, and to dismantle outposts erected since March 2001,” Ashton…

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