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Israel set to approve 4,000 settler units in occupied West Bank

Some 700,000 Jewish settlers live in at least 250 illegal settlements in the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem [File: Ahmad Gharabli/AFP]

Israel is set to advance plans for the construction of 4,000 illegal settler homes in the occupied West Bank, the interior minister has said.

Interior minister Ayelet Shaked, a staunch supporter of settlements, wrote in a Tweet on Friday that a planning committee would convene next week to approve 4,000 homes, calling construction in the West Bank a “basic, required and obvious thing”.

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