Appointed Donald Trump, Israel Build 500 Houses in Jerusalem

Appointed Donald Trump, Israel Build 500 Houses in Jerusalem


Tel Aviv - Israel approve the construction of 566 new homes in occupied east Jerusalem.

Approval of settlement construction in three different locations was justified by the government of the Mayor of Jerusalem, Sunday, January 22, 2017, two days after President Donald Trump was sworn in as leader of the United States.

According to Meir turgeman, from planning and urban development committee, told Israel Radio, permit the development plan previously been delayed until the end of the tenure of President Barack Obama.

Previously, the Obama administration strongly opposes the expansion of Israel to build housing in the area "Green Line 1967" for Jews.

In a poll organized by the United Nations Security Council, in December 2015, resulting in a sound 14-0 against the construction of such housing for violating international law.

"In voting the US ambassador to the United Nations Samantha Power states abstained," wrote the Independent on Sunday, January 22, 2017.

However, government Trump actually sympathized with close allies and drew Power to be replaced by David Friedman is more pro-Israel.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is scheduled to meet with Trump next week in one of Trump's agenda of the first meeting with world leaders.

Israel annexed East Jerusalem in the 1967 Six-Day War Israeli action was, until recently, was opposed by the international community. The city claimed the Palestinians and Israel as their country's capital region.