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Israel exploits peace to step up settlement expansion

Specialist in maps at the Orient House Khalil Al-Tafakaji stated that Israel uses the peace process and its talks with the Palestinian Authority (PA) in order to intensify its settlement activities and impose a fait accompli in occupied Jerusalem.

In a press statement said on Friday, Tafakaji affirmed that the number of Israeli settlers rose to 32,000 individuals and there are thousands of settlement units in east Jerusalem.

He warned that if the current situation was not changed, there would be nothing to establish a Palestinian state on, urging the PA to take a serious and decisive position through stopping its negotiations with Israel and making pressures on it to stop its settlement projects in Jerusalem and the West Bank.

The maps specialist also emphasized that Jerusalem and its people need huge amounts of money to build schools, homes and libraries, and the Arabs are demanded to provide more than they used to give before.

Jerusalem needs urgently 20,000 housing units and restoration works for about 6,000 Palestinian homes, but all this requires 200 million dollars at the present time, the specialist said.

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