(MENAFN- Kuwait News Agency (KUNA)) RAMALLAH, July 20 (KUNA) -- Israel's Construction and Housing Ministry is planning a major housing project that includes 1,100 units with far-reaching consequences for northeast Jerusalem, Haaretz said on Thursday.
The plan will extend the city's built-up areas eastward, filling in the gap between the settlement of Adam (also known as Geva Binyamin) and the Neveh Yaakov neighborhood.
The would-be units will cut off the southern outskirts of Ramallah from East Jerusalem.
The paper noted that Housing Minister Yoav Galant's office confirmed the details of the plan.
"We will be everywhere that it is possible to build and to provide solutions to the housing shortage, particularly, as in the case of Adam, in the vicinity of Jerusalem," the minister's office said.
The report added that officials from the Civil Administration confirmed that such a plan had been discussed in 2004, but had languished since then. The Housing Ministry has yet to submit a new one. (end) nq.aah.msa
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