Israeli authorities advanced plans for some 5,700 new
settlement homes, shattering in just six months the record for most
West Bank settler housing units for Israelis greenlit in a single year, Israeli media
reported.
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Around 13,056 homes that have now been advanced through a
pair of major planning stages thus far in 2023 surpasses the previous record of
12,159 homes, which were greenlit in 2020 when
Donald Trump was US president
and his administration proposed a peace plan that envisioned Israel annexing
all of its West Bank settlements.
The number of settler housing units advanced is also more
than the 4,427 advanced in all of 2022, when a more moderate unity government
was in power that was more willing to heed the
Biden administration’s warnings
against further entrenching Israel’s presence in the West Bank.
Among the projects advanced on Monday by the
Defense Ministry body that authorizes West Bank construction were ones retroactively
legalizing three illegal outposts close to the settlement Eli.
Nof Harim, Hayovel, and Palgei Mayim are illegally built
outposts established in 1998 and 1999 without government authorization and in
contravention of the designated use for the land on which they were built.
Nonetheless, the Civil Administration’s High Planning Subcommittee green-lit
plans for 754 new homes to be built in the three outposts.
Most of the plans advanced Monday made it through the
earlier planning stage known as “deposit,” but 818 homes received the final
planning approval that is required before construction can begin. They included
a project for 359 new homes in the northern West Bank settlement of
Elkana and
a plan for 381 new homes in the nearby settlement of Revava.
Another 809 homes for the
Eli settlement were advanced
through the deposit stage, along with 714 homes for Givat Ze’ev, 340 for Ma’ale
Adumim, 312 in the Beitar Illit, 310 for Adora, 264 for Etz Efraim, and 152 in
Ma’ale Amos. Most of those homes will be located closer to the Green Line.
The figure advanced on Monday dwarfed the 4,427 advanced in
all of 2022, when a more moderate unity government was in power and willing to
heed the Biden administration’s position against further entrenching Israel’s
presence in the West Bank.
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