Israel Announces West Bank Housing Plans
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Israel announced plans Monday for 500 new housing units in the West Bank, after an apparent U.S. policy shift that has infuriated the Palestinians. The Palestinians oppose all Jewish settlement in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, lands where they hope to establish an independent state.
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JERUSALEM - Shattering decades of public policy, the Israeli Parliament has, for the first time in the nation&#39;s history, approved a plan to uproot Jewish settlements from lands claimed by the Palestinians for a future state.
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The Israeli government on Tuesday invited construction bids for 1,001 new homes in Jewish settlements in the West Bank, an official said, in direct violation of a U.S.-backed peace plan calling for a settlement freeze.
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Israel has plans to build an additional 740 apartments in disputed east Jerusalem and the West Bank in 2008, a Cabinet minister said Sunday, a move sure to enrage Palestinians who say such construction undermines nascent peace talks.
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GAZA CITY, 24 August 2004 - Encouraged by an apparent US policy shift, Israel yesterday announced plans for more than 530 new housing units in the West Bank for Jewish settlers.
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Israel will allow construction within built up areas of existing Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank, but will not expand beyond those areas, Israeli officials said on Monday.
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Israel's housing minister said on Tuesday preparations were underway to build more than 1,000 new homes in and around Arab East Jerusalem, which Palestinians see as capital of a future state.
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Prime Minister Ariel Sharon has  approved building tenders for 1,000 more Israeli settlement  homes in the occupied West Bank frozen earlier to avoid  upsetting the United States, political sources said on Tuesday.
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JERUSALEM, Feb. 12 -- Israel announced plans Tuesday to build more than 1,100 apartments in disputed East Jerusalem, infuriating the Palestinians and triggering a new crisis in already troubled peace talks.
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JERUSALEM : The Israeli government was accelerating its settlement program with plans to build hundreds of new homes in the West Bank, bolstered by a US softening of opposition to new construction projects.
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Beit-ul-Moqaddas  - Israel has allowed the construction of more than 300 new homes in West Bank settlements near Beit-ul-Moqaddas, an official said Monday amid Palestinian anger at a U-turn by the United States on settlement building.
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Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon has approved the construction of 1,000 more homes in Jewish settlements in the West Bank, officials said Tuesday, violating a US-backed peace plan that calls for a building freeze.
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Israel plans to build more than 530 new settler homes in the West Bank after Washington signaled it would accept growth in Jewish enclaves in the occupied territory, Israeli political sources said on Monday.
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Israel's Housing Ministry has drawn up a preliminary proposal to build new homes on occupied land in Arab East Jerusalem but Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's office said on Wednesday the plan has not been authorized.
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Prime Minister Ariel Sharon has approved tenders to build 1,000 more Israeli settler homes in the occupied West Bank, plans that had been shelved earlier to avoid discord with Washington, political sources say.
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Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon  has approved building tenders for 1,000 more homes in Jewish  settlements in the West Bank frozen earlier to avoid upsetting  the United States, political sources said on Tuesday.
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JERUSALEM - The Israeli government issued bids Tuesday for 1,000 new homes in Jewish West Bank settlements, insisting the construction has Washington's tacit approval even though it violates a U.S.-backed peace plan.    U.S...