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Title: | Israel acts against peace. This Peace Now report shows intentions | |||
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| Name: | Don`t Ignore Stuff | | |||
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| City: | London | State: | UK | | |
| The Israeli group Peace Now reported that 1,257 new structures were built in settlements during 2008, compared to 800 in 2007, an increase of 57 percent. Building more than doubled in "outposts," — unauthorized settlements that are not officially recognized by the Israeli government — with 261 structures built, compared to 98 the year before, the report said. Despite a pledge to dismantle outposts, "not a single real outpost was evacuated," the report said. Israel pledged to freeze settlement activity in late 2007 before a peace conference in Annapolis in the US. The document also says that settlers exploited the media frenzy over the war in Gaza to intensify their efforts in the West Bank. "During the war in Gaza the settlers took advantage of the fact that all of the public attention was on the south to expand construction in the outposts and settlements,” the report says." So as Israel kills 400 kids in Gaza and injures 1000s it accelerates its West Bank settlements. Peace? |
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