New settlement plans in West Bank and Jerusalem revealed

The Israeli occupation authorities have recently approved new settlement plans in the West Bank and Occupied Jerusalem, Israeli press sources have revealed. The Israeli weekly (Kol Ha'ir) newspaper reported on Sunday that the Israeli District Committee for Planning and Building in Jerusalem has recently approved a plan to establish a new settlement neighborhood consists of about one thousand housing units within the settlement of Modi'in Illit, built on a Palestinian land in the West Bank city of Ramallah. It said that the new neighborhood, which will be established on a land area of 370 acres, is a part of a larger settlement scheme to establish of a bigger neighborhood called "Nufem" which will be held on hundreds of acres of lands in Ramallah in the future. Meanwhile, the Israel Land Administration is planning to build 130 new housing units in the settlement of Har Homa in Abu Ghunaim Mount located on the southeast road from occupied Jerusalem to Bethlehem in West Bank, as part of a thousand housing units it is planning to set up and lease to young couples, the paper added.