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Thursday, March 30, 2017
From the Liveblog of
Thursday, March 30, 2017
Cabinet okays new settlement to replace evacuated Amona
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleIn a unanimous vote, the security cabinet decides to establish a new West Bank settlement for families evicted from Amona, an outpost razed last month after the High Court of Justice ruled it had been built illegally on private Palestinian land.
The new community will be located near Emek Shilo, north of Ramallah, according to the Prime Minister’s Office. It will be the first new government approved settlement in some 25 years.
The rest of the Israeli cabinet is currently voting on the matter to approve the decision.
In addition, Prime Minister Netanyahu announces that some 2,000 new West Bank housing units were recently okayed out of 5,700 homes he announced two months ago, after Amona was evacuated.
— Raphael Ahren
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