Zionist authorities are expected o approve construction permits for hundreds of new settlement units in East al-Aquds (Jerusalem), in a defiant move against the recent resolution adopted by the UN Security Council.
The so-called “Jerusalem Local Planning and Construction Committee” is expected on Wednesday to approve permits to build 618 apartments in Jewish neighborhoods across the Green Line, Israeli daily Haaretz reported.
Some 140 settler units will be erected in Pisgat Ze’ev, 262 in Ramat Shlomo and 216 in Ramot, Haaretz reported, adding that even more permit requests for Pisgat Ze’ev and Ramot may be added before this week’s meeting.
According to other Israeli media reports, the Committee might approve as many as 5,600 units in response to the United Nations Security Council resolution which condemned Israeli settlement activities and called for a halt to illegal construction.
The planning committee will approve 2,600 new housing units in the neighborhood of Gilo, another 2,600 units in Givat Hamatos, and 400 units in Ramat Shlomo, for a grand total of 5,600 units in East Jerusalem, reported Israel Hayom.
“We remain unfazed by the UN vote, or by any other entity that tries to dictate what we do in Jerusalem. I hope the Israeli government and the new US administration will support us, so we can make up for the lack [of construction] during the eight years of the Obama administration,” Deputy Jerusalem Mayor Meir Turgeman who heads the zoning committee told “Israel Hayom”.
Source: Israeli media
