Samaria Regional Council Chairman Yossi Dagan calls on Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman to reconsider his support for a project to expand the Palestinian West Bank city of Qalqilya, saying the plan would endanger Jewish residents in the area.
“Multiplying the terror city of Qalqilya endangers the residents of Judea and Samaria,” Dagan says, using the Biblical names for the West Bank.
Liberman in response insists the plan will only realistically establish 6,000 new housing units, not 14,000 as originally claimed. The defense minister also says the building would be completed entirely on private Palestinian land and on the Palestinian side of the security wall.
Dagan says the exact figure of housing units was not important, and that supporting the plan solely advances Palestinian interests.
He makes the remarks to Liberman and Deputy Defense Minister Eli Ben Dahan while guiding the two on a tour in the area of the West Bank city.
The Qalqilya expansion plan is set to be debated in the cabinet later this evening.
— Jacob Magid
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