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Israeli Peace Group Condemns Government Plans for Jerusalem Settlement Expansion

HeadlineOct 17, 2011

The Israeli group Peace Now has condemned a plan by the Israeli government to build more than 2,600 housing units in a new urban settlement in Jerusalem. The Peace Now group said the plan was approved last week by a municipal committee, which had given the go-ahead for construction on the site. Hagit Ofran is the director of settlement watch at Peace Now.

Hagit Ofran, Peace Now director: “The plan is to build another new Israeli settlement in East Jerusalem for the first time since the '90s, when they built Har Homa. And this specific plan, if it's implemented, it might destroy the possibility for a two-state solution and land swap.”

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