{"id":9683,"date":"2013-08-13T02:55:01","date_gmt":"2013-08-13T02:55:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/israel-approves-more-900-settler-homes\/"},"modified":"2013-08-13T02:54:58","modified_gmt":"2013-08-13T02:54:58","slug":"israel-approves-more-900-settler-homes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/israel-approves-more-900-settler-homes\/","title":{"rendered":"Israel Approves More 900 Settler Homes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{{Jerusalem&#8217;s municipality has approved 942 new illegal settlement units in the Occupied East Jerusalem, a local official said, on the eve of the scheduled resumption of talks with the Palestinians.}}<\/p>\n<p>The units are in addition to the 1,200 settlement homes approved by Israel on Sunday, in a move that has angered the Palestinians and drawn criticism from the international community.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Jerusalem municipality has approved a construction plan for 942 homes in Gilo,&#8221; an existing illegal settlement in East Jerusalem, municipal councillor Yosef Pepe Alalu said.<\/p>\n<p>On Monday, US Secretary of State John Kerry said that the recent flap over illegal Israeli settlement announcements likely would not derail talks, which are scheduled to resume this week.<\/p>\n<p>Kerry, on a trip to Colombia, sought to neutralise the atmosphere in the Middle East, noting that the settlement plans were &#8220;to some degree expected,&#8221; and calling for both sides to resolve their major issues.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We have known that there was going to be a continuation of some building in certain places, and I think the Palestinians understand that,&#8221; the chief US diplomat said in Bogota.<\/p>\n<p>Palestinians denounced the settlement plan, which both Washington and the European Union said was illegal and detrimental to peace efforts.<\/p>\n<p>The Secretary of State urged Palestinians &#8220;not to react adversely&#8221; to Israel&#8217;s announcement of new illegal settlement buildings, stressing the need to return to the negotiating table.<\/p>\n<p>The last talks in 2010 broke down on the issue of illegal settlements, which are illegal under international law.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-3385 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/bn-4.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<p>{agencies}<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{{Jerusalem&#8217;s municipality has approved 942 new illegal settlement units in the Occupied East Jerusalem, a local official said, on the eve of the scheduled resumption of talks with the Palestinians.}} The units are in addition to the 1,200 settlement homes approved by Israel on Sunday, in a move that has angered the Palestinians and drawn [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[101],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-9683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-internationl","byline-igihe"],"bylines":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"contributors":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9683","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9683"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9683\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9683"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=9683"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=9683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}