Israel approves 1,100 settler homes in Gilo, Jerusalem

September 27, 2011 ⋅ 4:19 pm ⋅ Post a comment

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Israel has approved the construction of 1,100 homes in the Jewish settlement of Gilo on the outskirts of Jerusalem.

The move comes days after Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas called for full UN membership for a Palestinian state.

The US has repeatedly urged Israel to stop building settlements on occupied Palestinian land.

Almost 500,000 Jews live in settlements on occupied territory. The settlements are illegal under international law, though Israel disputes this.

US-brokered peace talks between Israel and the Palestinians are deadlocked over the issue of Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem.

The latest plan includes the construction of small housing units, public buildings, a school and an industrial zone, according to the Ynet news website.

“It’s a nice gift for Rosh Hashanah [Jewish New Year],” Yair Gabay, a member of the Jerusalem planning committee, told Ynet.

The authorities have now approved the building of almost 3,000 homes in Gilo over the past two years.

The US and United Nations criticised earlier announcements of building projects.

Israel built the settlement at Gilo on land it captured in 1967. It later annexed the area to the Jerusalem municipality in a move not recognised by the international community.

Israel says it does not consider areas within the Jerusalem municipality to be settlements.

Gilo lies across a narrow valley from the Palestinian village of Beit Jala. It became a target for militants during the second Palestinian uprising against Israeli occupation in 2000.

Photo: Gilo is built on land captured by Israel in 1967

BBC

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13 comments for “Israel approves 1,100 settler homes in Gilo, Jerusalem”

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Anonymous

Yucchy-looking apartments … I am sure Palestinians would not wish to live in them.

Anonymous

The ‘likely’ occupants of those units are not the ‘clean-living’, ‘wholesome’ individuals they’d like you to believe. You steal, say, land, you’re a thief. Nothing wholesome about that.

Anonymous

wow .. did they all come from Russia?

Anonymous

The Holiday Inn left over from the war looks nicer than these apartments.
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East Jerusalem is under civilian jurisdiction. Anyone with
Israeli citizenship will be able to live there and anyone who does will
have the right to get a passport and vote. It is not under military
rule. It is not a ‘Settlement’ in the political sense just because the some people say that it is. I could say that the sky is brown but that doesn’t make it true.
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Anonymous

and then Israel wonders why Palestinians still fight. In my personal Opinion the only way for Palestinians to gain the respect of the Israeli people is by armed struggle. In the end the oppressed always win because they have nothing to lose. Most of these homes are for Godless communist who adopt the Jewish religion to get welfare and live off the state. Once a few of them die they will leave and once the Druz stop fighting against the Arabs for Israel in the Israeli army Israel will have no one left to fight for her and will collapse on its own weight. Most IDF troops fighting in Palestinian areas and in Lebanon are druz because the European Jew is too scared and they dont have that many Arab Jews.

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