Israel begins new settlement push
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Israel invites tenders to build 700 new homes in two settlement blocs in the occupied West Bank.
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Israel, for the first time, began building a section of its security barrier in an area of the southern West Bank, the Associated Press reported, citing unidentified Israeli government officials.
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JERUSALEM Israel plans to rezone land within existing settlements to allow for the construction of another 533 housing units, most of them close to Jerusalem, officials said Monday.
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JERUSALEM - Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon has approved bids for construction of 1,000 homes in Jewish West Bank settlements after freezing them earlier this month, amid growing friction with the United States over continued settlement expansion.    The planned construction violates the internationally backed "road map" plan, accepted by Israel, which calls for a construction freeze...
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Israel announced plans yesterday for more than 500 new housing units in the West Bank, following an apparent US policy shift on Jewish settlements that has infuriated the Palestinians.
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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...
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Israel is building more than 3,000 homes in Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank despite a commitment under a U.S.-backed peace plan to stop such expansion, the Peace Now group said in a report on Wednesday.
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Israel unveiled plans on Sunday to build hundreds of new homes on occupied land near Jerusalem next year, drawing protests from Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on the eve of renewed peace talks.
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Twenty families in a small Israeli farming community deep in the southern Gaza Strip yesterday became the first Jewish settlement to agree to move inside Israel under Ariel Sharon&#39;s disengagement plan.
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Supporters of the Jewish settlement movement demonstrate against Israel&#39;s Prime Minister Ariel Sharon plan to remove settlements from the Gaza Strip, in front of Israel&#39;s parliament, or Knesset, Monday Oct. 25, 2004.
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Israel has started building 100 new homes in the Har Gilo settlement outside Jerusalem, Haaretz said on its Web site, citing unidentified political sources.
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Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon inaugurated a new, tempestuous session of parliament on Monday by defending his plan to dismantle all Jewish settlements in the Gaza Strip and a few in the West Bank.
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Israel has begun construction work on the southern section of its controversial West Bank separation barrier. At least two bulldozers could be seen on Sunday levelling land around the village of Sikka, 15km from the city of Hebron.
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With talks set for Monday, Prime Minister Ehud Olmertâs government sought budget approval for new settlements.
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HAR GILO, West Bank  - Israel plans to build 530  new settler homes in the occupied West Bank after Washington  softened its opposition to growth in Jewish enclaves, a policy  shift Palestinians say will make peace impossible.
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On his first trip to Israel, the President will run up against an old obstacle to peace: settlements on the West Bank
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Approval was expected and would mark the first time the Knesset agreed to the uprooting of Jewish settlements in lands claimed by the Palestinians for a state.