Jerusalem – An Israeli planning committee approved the construction of an apartment complex in a Jewish neighborhood of Hebron, a mostly Palestinian West Bank city that has been the flashpoint in attacks against Jews.
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The approval on Monday by the Civil Administration’s Subcommittee for Licensing is the first for new Jewish housing in the city since 2002.
In Hebron, some 500 Jews live among 40,000 Palestinians. The building will be constructed in the Beit Romano neighborhood, one of four Jewish neighborhoods in the city.
Hebron’s Palestinian municipality is expected to appeal the decision and claim ownership of the land.
Peace Now claims the property was under Jewish ownership prior to 1948 and that after 1967, the Civil Administration leased the land to the Hebron Palestinian Municipality and it remained under protected tenancy. The liberal NGO argues that should continue, even thought it was taken from the municipality in the 1980s to establish an Israeli military base.
Now that there is no longer a base on the land, the group says, it should revert to the municipality.
The subcommittee, a Defense Ministry panel that oversees construction activity in the West Bank, is set to approve hundreds more housing units throughout the West Bank during its meetings scheduled for Tuesday and Wednesday.
Hebron has seen a number of attacks on Jewish Israelis, most recently a rash of stabbing attempts by Palestinian teens last month and some car rammings.
not enough, if they followed Kahane this would not be an issue.
there is no palestine
Why do Jews need permission to live?
Israel belongs to the Jews from the Nile to the Euphrates
Bibi is a criminal. He shld leave the comfort of his home and take his entire mishpacha to the lions den and then can he allow such settlements. Bloodthirsty Coward what he is!
Settlements protect Jews by blocking those filthy blood sucking animals from power and keeping them away from large populations .
Yes Zionist are bad people . Yes the state was formed on kefira . But that has nothing to do with the facts on hand in 2017 . Once the zionists rilled them up those beasts can’t be tammed via peace treaties and talking sechel . They won’t be happy with pre 67 and we all know that . This the only answer is keep them in their cage .
But NYC is peaceful. Yes that’s because most are secular and less radicalized . And don’t fool yourself , you see what they did to Paris where Jews never chepered those Muslim pigs
Bibi is the pig here. Putting people essentially in the cave of snakes. Hes the REAL snake.