Following Benjamin Netanyahu’s Wednesday announcement that 300 new Israeli homes would be built in the Beit El settlement in the West Bank, Construction Minister Ariel Attias said on Thursday that 550 additional settlements would be constructed elsewhere in occupied West Bank. These announcements come one day after the Knesset struck down a bill that would have legalized the Ulpana outpost, on the grounds that these settlements were not “legal.”
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