The plans were approved by the High Planning Committee, a zionist body responsible for authorizing settlement building.

"The High Planning Committee approved the construction of 146 housing units in the Gush Etzion settlement, south of Bethlehem city, while 105 settlement homes will be built in Kfar Al-dad east of the city," Hassan Bureijia, head of the Committee Against the Wall and Settlements in Bethlehem, noticed in a statement.

Zionists occupied the West Bank, east Jerusalem and the Gaza Strip in the Six-Day War in 1967. Zionists’ settlements in the West Bank are illegal under international law.

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