NGO says the government advanced plans for 1,531 new settler homes in the last year.
Netanyahu has abetted illegal settler building by allowing Israeli officials to work on retroactively legalizing 756 such homes in the West Bank this year, Peace Now charged.
The group, which monitors settlement building, issued a mini report on such activity, in advance of Wednesday’s meeting of the Higher Planing Council for Judea and Samaria.
Peace Now charged that from January of this year and until now, the council has advanced plans to authorize 384 illegal settler homes and to advance plans to legalize another 372 such structures.
“The Netanyahu government continues to plan and build all over the West Bank, while also giving settlers the message that any construction done without planning will be retroactively legalized,” Peace Now said.
The United States and the United Nations have this year paid increasing attention to Israel’s efforts to retroactively legalize settlement activity.
In its mini-report, Peace Now also explains that the council has advanced plans for 1,531 new settler homes this year and approved the construction of 410 new units.