Baku-APA. Israel approved the building of hundreds of housing units in Jewish settlements in the West Bank, the Ha'aretz daily reported on Wednesday, APA reports quoting Xinhua.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Moshe Ya'alon greenlighted last month the construction of about 300 new housing units in Jewish settlements, some of them isolated outposts, the daily reported.
Both the prime minister's office and the Defense Ministry did not comment on the report.
Netanyahu and Ya'alon instructed the top planning board of the Israeli Civil Administration, the governing body that operates in the West Bank since 1981 and carries out bureaucratic functions in the occupied territories, to promote new construction projects in the settlements, according to Ha'aretz.
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