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azurnoir

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Mon Jun 10, 2013, 02:38 PM Jun 2013

Construction of new West Bank projects hits seven-year high

Despite the 2011 tent protests, housing construction has actually decreased over the last year in Israel. At the same time, the West Bank registered a national high in new construction projects for Jewish settlers.

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The numbers refer only to legal projects and not to unregulated projects in the so-called “outposts.” Furthermore, construction projects in annexed East Jerusalem are left out are are counted separately. Construction projects in Jerusalem as a whole make up 13 percent of the national figure, and since the city cannot be developed to the west, at least some of the new projects are done beyond the Green Line.

Despite the real estate crisis and the public protest, new construction projects in Israel actually decreased by 8.9 percent during the same period. These figures can help explain the attractiveness of settling in the occupied territories for many Jews.

http://972mag.com/west-bank-settlement-construction-hits-seven-year-high/73391/


related how land for such projects is acquired

http://adeiad.yesh-din.org/index_EN.html

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