The so-called Supreme Council for Planning of the Municipality of the Occupation in Jerusalem approved today, Wednesday, a large settlement plan announced by Benjamin Netanyahu, the Israeli Prime Minister, 5 days ago.
According to the Hebrew channel Reshet, the announced plan was fully approved.
Netanyahu had announced a plan to construct a residential neighborhood with the aim of expanding the Har Homa settlement by building 2,200 housing units, and the other was planning to build 3,000 other units in a new settlement that was previously called "Givat Hamtus", and the construction of which was frozen under international pressure from previous years.
Today, the same committee is supposed to approve other settlement plans, including 1,300 housing units in the West Bank.
The plan in the West Bank is focused on building hundreds of units in the settlement of Eli near Ramallah, and a plan to establish an industrial zone near the "Shomer Samaria" between Salfit and Qalqilya, and the expansion of the Yitzhar settlement near Nablus.
A park, car park and 120 hotel rooms will be established in the heart of the Jordan Valley.
