Israel announces 2,500 more West Bank settlement homes

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That followed the approval on Sunday by the Jerusalem municipality of hundreds of new homes in East Jerusalem. About 400,000 settlers live in the West Bank and a further 200,000 in East Jerusalem, which Israel seized in the 1967 Middle East war. The recent announcements on settlement plans for East Jerusalem and the West Bank have been seen by some as Netanyahu?s way of keeping the far right on side while avoiding the annexation issue. Beit El is a settlement near Ramallah, in which Trump?s pick for the new US ambassador to Israel, David Friedman, has been involved. A day earlier, Netanyahu had told his security cabinet that he was also lifting all restrictions on Israeli construction in occupied East Jerusalem.