The Israeli regime has recently approved the construction of more than 2,600 illegal settler units in East al-Quds (Jerusalem), a watchdog says.
The Israeli non-governmental group, Peace Now, said in a statement on Wednesday that the construction of 2,610 units was approved last week.
The settler homes are to be built in the neighborhood of Givat Hamatos.
According to Peace Now, the project ruins any chances of a possible two-state solution to the Palestinian-Israeli conflict.
“Givat Hamatos is destructive to the two-state solution…. It divides the potential Palestinian state and blocs the possibility to connect the Palestinian neighborhoods in south Jerusalem with the future Palestinian state. Netanyahu continues his policy of destroying the possibility of a two-state solution. He is doing so in the West Bank, and he is doing so in East Jerusalem (al-Quds),” Peace Now added.
Meanwhile, Palestine Liberation Organization leader, Hanan Ashrawi, also slammed the construction of more settler units, saying that Israel was more interested in “stealing land than making peace.”
More than half a million Israelis live in more than 120 settlements built since Israel’s occupation of the Palestinian territories of the West Bank including East al-Quds in 1967.
The Israeli settlements are considered to be illegal by the United Nations and most countries because the territories were captured by Israel in a war in 1967 and are thus subject to the Geneva Conventions, which forbid construction on occupied lands.
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