Israel to build 77 settler homes in East Jerusalem

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Hagit Ofran, Director, Settlement Watchdog Peace Now, said Israel has issued tenders for the construction of 77 housing units in Jewish settlement neighborhoods in East Jerusalem.
She said in Jerusalem on Monday that the tenders, published on Sunday by the Ministry of Housing and Construction, invited bids for building 41 housing units at Pisgat Ze'ev and 36 others at Neve Ya'akov, reports Xinhua.
Ofran said this was the first such announcement in East Jerusalem since the March 17 parliamentary elections.
 "The fact that the tenders for East Jerusalem are published during Prime Minister Netanyahu's interim government could signal us what would happen when the new government would be formed.
"Netanyahu is continuing his election strategy and settlement policy that aims to prevent the possibility of peace and the two-state solution," she added.
 Ofran said the move came amidst soaring tensions between Israelis and Palestinians in Jerusalem over access to the al-Aqsa mosque compound, or the Temple Mount, a holy site to both Muslims and Jews.
Israel seized Jerusalem and the West Bank in the 1967 Mideast war and has controlled it ever since.
The settlements are illegal under international law. Several rounds of peace talks between Israel and the Palestinians reached a deadlock over the continued construction in the settlements.

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