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| REFERENCE PHOTO: Israeli defence Minister Avigdor Lieberman |
Settlements are one of the most
heated issues in efforts to restart Israeli-Palestinian peace talks, frozen since 2014.
Palestinians want the West Bank for a future state, along with East Jerusalem and the Gaza Strip. Most countries consider settlements that Israel has built in territory it captured in the 1967 Middle East war to be illegal.
Israel disputes that its settlements are illegal and says their future should be determined in peace talks with the Palestinians.“We will promote building in all of Judea and Samaria, from the north to south, in small communities and in large ones,” Lieberman wrote, using the Biblical names for the West Bank.There was no immediate comment from Palestinian officials, who have long argued that Israeli settlements could deny them a viable and contiguous country.Some 500,000 Israelis live in the West Bank and East Jerusalem, areas that are also home to more than 2.6 million Palestinians.
(THE REUTERS)
Israel disputes that its settlements are illegal and says their future should be determined in peace talks with the Palestinians.“We will promote building in all of Judea and Samaria, from the north to south, in small communities and in large ones,” Lieberman wrote, using the Biblical names for the West Bank.There was no immediate comment from Palestinian officials, who have long argued that Israeli settlements could deny them a viable and contiguous country.Some 500,000 Israelis live in the West Bank and East Jerusalem, areas that are also home to more than 2.6 million Palestinians.
(THE REUTERS)
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