Israel to end freeze with hundreds of new settlement housing units

The settlers asserted that a decision in their favor at the subcommittee meeting will be an attempt by the defense minister to fix the strained relationship between the settlers and the prime minister.

The freeze in settlement construction came to the fore last week when, according to settler leaders, Netanyahu told them: “We cannot develop the settlements further, but rather need to preserve what we have.”

The Likud party denied the comment attributed to Netanyahu, while the head of the Har Hebron regional council, Yochai Damari, said that “the ramifications of deciding to freeze settlement planning and building in Samaria will hurt many communities.”

The subcommittee is expected to approve, along with the Dreinoff buildings, some 296 homes to be built on land near Beit El currently housing a Border Police base that is to be vacated as part of the evacuation agreement of several buildings in the Ulpana neighborhood in 2012.

 

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