Jerusalem, October 18 (RHC)-- A new report says Israeli settlement construction on the Palestinian lands in the occupied West Bank has increased by about 70 percent.
The Israeli organization Peace Now said on Thursday that the Tel Aviv regime began the construction of more than 1 thousand 700 new settler units in the West Bank between January and June of 2013, compared with 995 units during the same period in 2012.
The organization also stated that the new illegal settlement activities were “drastic,” and that some 50 percent of the new construction projects were started in “isolated settlements.” And the report added that most of the settlement projects were carried out within the 1967 borders.
The Israeli regime has been under fire from the international community, including its own allies, over its expansionist policies. However, the Tel Aviv regime defies calls to abandon its illegal settlement activities.
Over half a million Israelis live in more than 120 settlements built since Israel’s occupation of the Palestinian territories of the West Bank and East Jerusalem in 1967.
