{"id":361,"date":"2014-02-05T20:03:49","date_gmt":"2014-02-05T20:03:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gphrc.org\/?p=361"},"modified":"2014-02-05T20:04:17","modified_gmt":"2014-02-05T20:04:17","slug":"israel-okays-plans-550-east-jerusalem-settler-homes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gphrc.org\/index.php\/israel-okays-plans-550-east-jerusalem-settler-homes\/","title":{"rendered":"Israel &#8216;okays plans for over 550 East Jerusalem settler homes"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<div>Published today (updated) 05\/02\/2014 19:32<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.maannews.net\/images\/345x230\/264411_345x230.jpg\" \/><\/div>\n<div>Palestinians and Israeli activists hold a banner reading &#8220;No peace<br \/>\nwith settlements&#8221; as they take part in a demonstration near the<br \/>\nWest bank town of Jericho, on January 31, 2014.(AFP\/Ahmad Gharabli)<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"BODYdiv\">JERUSALEM (AFP) &#8212; Israel on Wednesday pushed forward with plans to build more than 550 new homes in illegal settlements in annexed East Jerusalem, the city council said.In a statement listing &#8220;building permits that were approved&#8221; during a local planning committee session, it said permits were granted to private contractors to build 386 units in Har Homa, 136 units in Neve Yaakov and 36 units in Pisgat Zeev.<\/p>\n<p>Issuing construction permits is one of the last stages before construction begins, with building likely to start in the coming weeks, Israel&#8217;s Peace Now settlement watchdog said.<\/p>\n<p>Israel and the Palestinians began a round of direct peace talks at the end of July with the aim of reaching an agreement within nine months.<\/p>\n<p>But the US-led negotiations have been overshadowed by Israel&#8217;s refusal to rein in construction plans on occupied Palestinian land.<\/p>\n<p>Israel captured East Jerusalem during the 1967 Six-Day War and later annexed it in a move never recognised by the international community.<\/p>\n<p>It considers all of Jerusalem its &#8220;eternal, undivided&#8221; capital and does not see construction in the eastern sector as settlement building.<\/p>\n<p>Some 350,000 Jewish settlers live in West Bank settlements, in addition to another 200,000 Israelis settled in occupied and annexed East Jerusalem.<\/p>\n<p>The international community views all settlement building on occupied Palestinian land as illegal.<\/p>\n<p><b>Ma&#8217;an staff contributed to this report<\/b><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Published today (updated) 05\/02\/2014 19:32 Palestinians and Israeli activists hold a banner reading &#8220;No peace with settlements&#8221; as they take part in a demonstration near the West bank town of Jericho, on January 31, 2014.(AFP\/Ahmad Gharabli) JERUSALEM (AFP) &#8212; Israel on Wednesday pushed forward with plans to build more than 550 new homes in illegal [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-illegal-settlements"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gphrc.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gphrc.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gphrc.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gphrc.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gphrc.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=361"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/gphrc.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":365,"href":"https:\/\/gphrc.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361\/revisions\/365"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gphrc.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gphrc.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gphrc.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}