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JERUSALEM - Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has approved the construction of hundreds of new housing units at a Jewish settlement in the occupied West Bank, the housing ministry said on Sunday.
“After a series of consultations with the prime minister, Housing Minister Zeev Boim has approved the relaunching of construction in Givat Zeev,” the ministry said in a statement.The move was swiftly denounced as hampering efforts to advance faltering peace talks that Israelis and Palestinians revived to much fanfare under US stewardship in late November, but that have been stagnant since.
“We condemn in the harshest terms this decision,” senior Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erakat told AFP.
“We consider that with this decision, Israel wants to demolish the peace process and demolish the international efforts to advance the peace process,” he said.
“We ask the American administration to… pressure Israel to reverse this decision.”
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