Netanyahu authorizes 300 settler homes in West Bank

The case has exacerbated increasing tensions in Netanyahu’s government, not least with the pro-settlement Jewish Home party, which was already complaining about a claimed freeze in recent settlement construction. On Tuesday, United Nations special rapporteur on torture Juan Mendez and UN special rapporteur on the right to health Dainius Puras called on Israel to halt the legislation.

The announcement came as Israel tore down two apartment blocks on the occupied territory’s Beit El settlement, amid protests by Israeli settlers.

Settlement organizations also wield significant influence in Netanyahu’s right-wing government, which has only a narrow majority in parliament following March elections.

Police forcibly removed a number of teenagers who refused to leave the site, while numerous protesters left the site without incident. Israel’s Supreme Court ruled the two partially-built dwellings were constructed illegally on Palestinian-owned land.

Israeli settlers shout at Israeli security forces Wednesday as the…

Moreover, planning approval was released for the construction of another 413 homes in East Jerusalem.

Israeli incursions into al-Aqsa Mosque, the killings and the ongoing Israeli settlements expansion would push “the Palestinian leadership to take important decisions”, Abbas’ spokesman, Nabil Abu Rudeineh, warned in a statement on the official Palestinian Wafa news agency.

“The court’s role is to judge; the government’s role is to build”, he said in a statement.

The new units announced by Benjamin Netanyahu’s office are both in Beit El and elsewhere, including areas in east Jerusalem, which Israeli leaders say are inseparable neighbourhoods of Jerusalem. Israel’s foreign ministry said in a text message that the report was “fundamentally flawed in its methodologies, in its facts, in its legal analysis and in its conclusions”.

The navy affirms Thursday that military overran the underconstruction complex inside the Beit El negotiation overnight to get rid of. the landscape was obtained in by numerous demonstrators and experienced the security forces.

Many protesters compared the court decision to the evacuation of settlers in the Gush Katif settlement bloc in Gaza 10 years ago this month, ordered as part of then-prime minister Ariel Sharon’s “disengagement” plan.

Netanyahu had said he opposed the demolition, which began Wednesday. “It is undemocratic and absurd”. “All of these other buildings around will also have to come down”.

Also swift was Netanyahu’s response.

“Despite that, the suspect continued to run and when he attempted to get to the roof of another building, he fell off it and was mortally wounded”, a statement said. But we can not let that stop us. The Supreme Court gave the state two years to arrange for building permits and approve the status of the land or to raze the buildings. The Israeli government in 1978 officially approved the establishment of the Beit El community on that land. “Houses of Jews should not be destroyed”.