Jerusalem panel advances new Jewish neighborhood that would bisect Palestinian areas

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This one is really going to make a lot of people very angry.

The new neighborhood will straddle both sides of the Green Line and connect the East Jerusalem Jewish neighborhoods of Givat Hamatos and Har Homa. It will also prevent contiguity between the Palestinian neighborhoods of Beit Safafa and Sur Baher and block broader Palestinian contiguity between East Jerusalem and Bethlehem.

But the Israeli government views Jerusalem areas on both sides of the Green Line to be part of its undivided capital, with nationalist groups utilizing that policy to push for the construction of Jewish neighborhoods in Israeli-annexed East Jerusalem in order to thwart the establishment of a Palestinian state.

Jerusalem panel advances new Jewish neighborhood that would bisect Palestinian areas | The Times of Israel