West Bank Settlement-building Activity Quadrupled This Year, Monitoring Group Says

Plans to construct 2,168 new housing units have moved forward since September 2015, according to Peace Now’s Settlement Watch project. That includes anything from initial submission to final authorization.

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Construction workers are busy applying the finishing touches to a row of brand new, single-family homes adjacent to Ariel University, each with its own little garden plot. Hoping to lure prospective buyers, a large advertisement on the road notes their proximity to a soon-to-be-built shopping mall.

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