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(MENAFN - Kuwait News Agency (KUNA)) Israel is planning to construct 50,000 housing units in east Jerusalem, said Haaretz Israeli paper on Thursday.
Haaretz said that most of the units will be built "in Jerusalem neighborhoods beyond the Green Line," referring to Palestinian territories occupied by Israel in 1967.
A smaller number of units will be built in Arab neighborhoods, it added.
"Jerusalem's construction plans for the next few years, even decades, are expected to focus on East Jerusalem," it said.
"The plans for some 20,000 of the apartments are already in advanced stages of approval and implementation, while plans for the remainder have yet to be submitted to the planning committees," it noted.
In addition, Israel has a plan to build 1,600 homes in the ultra-Orthodox East Jerusalem neighborhood of Ramat Shlomo.
The plan, approved by the Israeli Interior Ministry on Tuesday, met severe US, Palestinian, Arab, and EU criticism.
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