{"id":12460,"date":"2018-08-23T02:28:24","date_gmt":"2018-08-23T02:28:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=12460"},"modified":"2018-08-23T02:28:24","modified_gmt":"2018-08-23T02:28:24","slug":"israel-to-build-1000-new-settler-homes-on-occupied-land","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=12460","title":{"rendered":"Israel to build 1,000 new settler homes on occupied land"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-io-article-url=\"http:\/\/www.arabnews.com\/node\/1360446\/middle-east\" readability=\"73\">\n<p>\nAMMAN:\u00a0Israel announced plans on Wednesday for more than 1,000 new settlement homes in the occupied West Bank, some intended as \u201cpunishment\u201d for Palestinian attacks.<\/p>\n<p>\nOf the 1,004 homes approved by a Defense Ministry committee, 370 are in the Adam settlement near Jerusalem, where an Israeli was fatally stabbed in July. Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman had pledged to build 400 new homes there in response.<\/p>\n<p>\nThe Israeli NGO Peace Now said almost all the new houses \u201care in isolated settlements that Israel will likely need to evacuate within the framework of a two-state agreement.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\nThe group said settlement plans increased to 6,742 houses in 2017 compared with 2,629 the previous year. Plans had been advanced for 3,794 homes so far this year, it said.<\/p>\n<p>\nMeanwhile, Palestinian leaders on Wednesday rejected overtures by US President Donald Trump after he said they would get something \u201cvery good\u201d in exchange for US recognition of Jerusalem as Israel\u2019s capital.<\/p>\n<p>\nSenior Palestinian official Ahmad Al-Tamimi said Trump\u2019s assertion that he had removed Jerusalem from future negotiations was \u201ca continuation of the US policies in favor of Israel.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\nThe president\u2019s push for an Israeli-Palestinian peace deal was impossible without \u201crecognizing east Jerusalem as the capital of the Palestinian state,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\nEarlier Trump told a rally in the US state of West Virginia: \u201cEvery time there were peace talks they never got past Jerusalem. In the negotiations, Israel will have to pay a higher price because they won a very big thing.<\/p>\n<p>\nNow Jerusalem\u2019s off the table, the Palestinians will get something very good because it\u2019s their turn next.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AMMAN:\u00a0Israel announced plans on Wednesday for more than 1,000 new settlement homes in the occupied West Bank, some intended as \u201cpunishment\u201d for Palestinian attacks. Of the 1,004 homes approved by a Defense Ministry committee, 370 are in the Adam settlement near Jerusalem, where an Israeli was fatally stabbed in July. Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman had&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":12461,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12460","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle_east_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12460","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12460"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12460\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/12461"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}