‘Israel’ Pushing for More Settlements despite UN Vote
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An ‘Israeli' committee is Wednesday to discuss issuing permits for more settler units in occupied east al-Quds/Jerusalem, despite a landmark UN resolution demanding an end to such activity.
The Ir Amim NGO, which monitors settlement building, said the planning committee could approve permits for 618 housing units in the mainly Palestinian eastern sector of the occupied city.
It would mark the first such approvals since Friday's UN Security Council vote demanding a halt to the illegal ‘Israeli' settlement building in the Palestinian territories.
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.
Al-Quds 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 said: "I'm not concerned by the UN or anything else trying to dictate our actions in ‘Jerusalem'."
"I hope the government and new US administration will give us the momentum to continue and make up for the shortage created over the eight years of the Obama administration," he said of settlement construction.
Source: News Agencies, Edited by website team
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