Israel’s proposal to construct 450 additional settlement homes in East Jerusalem is rejected by Palestine
An Israeli proposal to construct 450 additional settlement homes in East Jerusalem has been rejected by Palestine, which claims the proposal ignores the nations that support the two-state solution.
The Palestinian Foreign Ministry said in a news release on Tuesday that Israel’s plan “disregards the countries that reject the settlement” and “aims to separate Palestinian neighbourhoods, towns, and communities in Jerusalem from each other.”
Israel is moving forward with plans to construct 450 Jewish dwelling units in East Jerusalem, according to a story published earlier on Tuesday by the Israeli daily Haaretz.
According to the report, a real estate firm controlled by a right-wing activist is pursuing the idea of building a new Jewish community in East Jerusalem between the Palestinian communities of Umm Lisan and Jabal Mukkaber.
In a news release, the Ministry said that “the Israeli government is racing against time in implementing its expansionist map of interests at the expense of the Palestinian land and deepening the annexation of Jerusalem.”
It said, “These plans also seek to impose Israeli rule on East Jerusalem and cut it off from its Palestinian surroundings.
It said that Israel was obstructing and undermining attempts to put the two-state solution into practise and “establish a viable, sovereign, and geographically contiguous Palestinian state with East Jerusalem as its capital”.
According to the Xinhua news agency, the Israeli settlement dispute is the most salient part of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict and was a major factor in the failure of US-sponsored peace negotiations in March 2014.
The West Bank and Gaza Strip are included in the Palestinian areas that the Palestinians want to see turned into an independent state alongside Israel, with East Jerusalem serving as its capital.
