Israel to approve thousands of new settler units before Biden’s inauguration: Report
Israel is planning to build thousands of new illegal settler units in the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem al-Quds before US President-elect Joe Biden takes office, say an Israeli media report.
The plan needs to be submitted for approval at the Israeli High Council of Planning and Building, which supervises illegal settlement construction, the Israeli Kan public broadcaster said on Sunday.
It said Israeli authorities seek to get a construction permit before Biden’s inauguration in January, noting that the council is set to convene in the coming two weeks to approve the construction of the new illegal settler units.
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— ANADOLU AGENCY (ENG) (@anadoluagency) December 27, 2020
The latest development comes amid international outcry against the Tel Aviv regime’s expansionism, illegal settlement expansion activities and land grab policies in Palestinian territories.
More than 600,000 Israelis live in over 230 settlements built since the 1967 Israeli occupation of the Palestinian territories of the West Bank and East Jerusalem al-Quds.
Since US President Donald Trump took office in January 2017, Tel Aviv has stepped up its settlement construction activities in defiance of United Nations Security Council Resolution 2334, which pronounced settlements in the West Bank and East Jerusalem al-Quds “a flagrant violation under international law.”
The Israeli Peace Now group has reported that Israel’s settlement activity has doubled in the occupied Palestinian territories in the past four years during the term of outgoing President Donald Trump.
All Israeli settlements are illegal under international law as they are built on occupied land.
Under the so-called Middle East peace plan unveiled by Trump earlier this year, Israel will have sovereignty over all of al-Quds as well as settlements in the occupied territories.
Palestinians have rejected the plan as a conspiracy since they demand East Jerusalem al-Quds as the capital of their future state, and many believe the settlement expansion is aimed at surrounding the Palestinian capital.
To Palestinians, expansion of illegal Israeli settlements makes a future state unviable.
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