In response to the UNESCO vote, to admit Palestine as a country into the organization, the Israeli government vowed to continue settlement construction in East Jerusalem and West Bank.<\/p>\n
The Israeli\u00a0government announced Tuesday that approximately 2,000 new homes would be built\u00a0in East Jerusalem and in the West Bank settlements of Efrat and Ma\u2019ale Adumim.<\/p>\n
Hagit Ofran Settlement Watch Director:<\/strong><\/p>\n \u201cI think that\u00a0the announcement that Israel will build more settlements as a reaction to the\u00a0unilateral steps of the Palestinians, has no connection to any Israeli\u00a0interest.\u00a0 The message that the Israeli government is sending is that Israel\u00a0does not want peace and that we want to continue with settlement\u00a0activity.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" In response to the UNESCO vote, to admit Palestine as a country into the organization, the Israeli government vowed to continue settlement construction in East Jerusalem and West Bank. The Israeli\u00a0government announced Tuesday that approximately 2,000 new homes would be built\u00a0in East Jerusalem and in the West Bank settlements of Efrat and Ma\u2019ale Adumim. Hagit… Read more »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14155,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,16],"tags":[1383,1432],"class_list":["post-15274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-campaigns","category-settlement-watch","tag-efrat","tag-maale-adumim"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peacenow.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15274","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peacenow.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peacenow.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peacenow.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peacenow.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15274"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/peacenow.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15274\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15277,"href":"https:\/\/peacenow.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15274\/revisions\/15277"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peacenow.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14155"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peacenow.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peacenow.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peacenow.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}