The announcement confirms that Tel Aviv insists on ignoring the United Nations Security Council’s resolutions on the illegality of settlements on the occupied territories, Abu Rudeineh, the spokesman of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, stressed.

This unilateral measure will lead the region to greater tension, the official affirmed.

Israeli authorities approved building that number of homes in the Israeli settlement of Pisgat Ze’ev, in East Jerusalem, which the Palestinians claim as the capital of their future State.

Rudeineh accused the neighboring nation of taking advantage of the international community’s attention on the conflict in Ukraine “to promote settlement projects and steal more Palestinian land.”

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