Israeli New Right party seeks to build 113,000 settler homes in WB
Selasa, 27 Ogos 2019 11:08:51 PG
Party leaders
from the right-wing alliance, Hayemin Hehadash, on Wednesday
announced a proposed plan to construct 113,000 housing units in Israeli
settlements in the occupied West Bank, according to different Hebrew media
outlets.
According to to
the New Right (NR) party, the plan – which would see the settler population
rise by some half a million – is a solution to Israel’s housing crisis, which
has seen rising house prices.
“The Tel Aviv
metropolitan area is almost as crowded as Gaza and as expensive as New York,”
NR chief and former justice minister Ayelet Shaked claimed at a press
conference held to launch the plan in Etz Efraim settlement.
“The different
magic tricks we have seen in recent years have not worked. The solution is simple:
to lower prices you must increase supply,” she said.
NR wants to
construct these settler homes over a period of five years, which will link
Ariel – deep in the northern occupied West Bank – with Rosh Ha’ayin inside the
Green Line.
Its plan is
aimed at increasing the number of Jewish settlers living in the West Bank by
half a million people, which will bring their total number to about one
million.
The right-wing
alliance claims the Israeli population will reach 10 million by the year 2024,
and it wants one million of those people to live in the West Bank.
Source: Palestinian Information Center