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Israel weighs proposal for new West Bank settlement near Jerusalem
By Reuters
Tags: Settlements, Yesha, West Bank 

Israel has proposed building a new settlement in the West Bank near Jerusalem, a spokesman for the Yesha settlements council said on Monday.

The council said officials made the new proposal as part of a deal to push them to quit the Migron settlement outpost - a hilltop collection of trailers that is home to more than 40 families that was established without government authorization.

Ishai Hollander, spokesman for the settlers' Yesha council, told Reuters that defense officials had proposed moving several families from Migron to another West Bank site.
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Hollander told Reuters the settler council would meet this week to discuss "a proposal put by the Defense Ministry ... to build a permanent settlement of Migron nearby" to the current site, on a hill near the Palestinian city of Ramallah.

Some half a million Israelis live among 2.5 million Palestinians in West Bank settlements. Migron is one of the biggest of dozens of outposts that Israel considers unlawful.

The Defense Ministry, which oversees the issue, made no comment on a move that would be seen by Palestinians and by Israel's U.S. and European allies as a breach of commitments to halt settlement activity on land Palestinians want for a state.

The Palestinians have already accused Israel of bad faith during the nine-month-old, U.S.-sponsored Annapolis peace process for approving the expansion of other settlements, mostly near Jerusalem, and for last month giving the go-ahead for an entirely new settlement in the Jordan Valley.

Any new settlement would have to win Israeli cabinet approval. Israel has not built any new enclaves for years though it continues to expand existing settlements it says it wants to keep under any peace deal.

A Washington-sponsored "road map" for peace, reaffirmed at the Annapolis summit last year, calls for Israel to freeze all settlement activity, viewed by the West as an obstacle to peace.

Hopes of agreement this year on a deal to establish a Palestinian state have faded since the meeting in November.

Israel had also pledged to its own high court, in response to a petition filed by an anti-settler group, to remove the Migron outpost by this month, after acknowledging it had been built on privately owned Palestinian land.

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