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Arab League slams Israeli settlements as "scandalous violation"
Sep 29, 2011, 18:30 GMT
Cairo - Israel's planned construction of new homes in East Jerusalem was proof of its lack of desire for peace, the Arab League said Thursday.
Secretary General Nabil al-Arabi described the construction as a 'scandalous violation of international law.'
He also criticized United States policy in the Middle East, saying that as a mediator between the Israelis and Palestinians it had failed to halt settlement activity.
The Jerusalem District Planning Committee announced Tuesday that it had approved the construction of 1,100 homes in Gilo, a Jewish neighbourhood in southern Jerusalem built on land captured by Israel in the June 1967 war.
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