Defense minister promises to build 1,300 new settlement homes

Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman’s office says the minister will ask Israel’s top construction planning body in the West Bank to approve tomorrow 1,285 new housing units for immediate construction and some 2,500 housing units to enter the planning stages in over 20 Israeli settlements in the West Bank.

“We committed to several waves of construction permits in Judea and Samaria this year, and we’re fulfilling our promise,” Liberman says in a statement.

An illustrative photo of the construction of new houses in the West Bank settlement of Ma’ale Adumim, on September 25, 2017. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

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