WEST BANK (Palestine Foundation Information Center) The so-called Planning and Building Committee in the Israeli municipality in Occupied Jerusalem approved 3 additional settlement plans.
The plans include building residential towers south of the occupied city, including 30 floors in the occupied Katamon neighborhood, and 3 towers in the Gilo settlement, which was illegally built on Al-Walaja village lands.
On November 25, the same committee approved a settlement project to update a complex with 292 housing units, underground parking lots and public spaces.
Also in November, a settlement plan was approved in the Katamon neighborhood and Ein Karem village.
The plan includes the construction of 750 housing units and public and commercial buildings.
In the first six months of 2024, the Israeli authorities studied a total of 83 settlement plans to expand or establish new settlements, including 39 plans in West Bank illegal settlements and 44 plans in Jerusalem illegal settlements.
