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Netanyahu says no freeze in settlement construction in West Bank

University students demonstrate in Gaza City on February 26, 2023, in support of the West Bank and against the Aqaba summit between Israel and Palestinians [Mahmud Hams/AFP]

Barely hours after Jordan hosted a meeting between Israel and the Palestinian Authority in the Red Sea city of Aqaba, Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the building of Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank will continue to go ahead.

Sunday’s meeting, which was also attended by Egypt and the United States, was called in order to discuss steps to de-escalate tensions amid surging violence in the occupied Palestinian territories.

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