Netanyahu said that Israel has no intention of building any new settlements as his nationalist-religious government
\nJENIN, PALESTINIAN TERRITORIES:
\nIsraeli forces killed a Palestinian security officer during clashes in the occupied West Bank flashpoint city of Jenin on Monday, the official Palestinian news agency Wafa said.
\nThe Israeli military said it was looking into the report. Earlier it said in a statement that its forces came under heavy Palestinian fire while seeking the arrest of security suspects in Jenin and returned fire at the gunmen.
\n\u201cWith God\u2019s help … there will be many more new settlements in northern Samaria,\u201d he said, referring to the West Bank by its biblical name.
\nUS-led peace talks aimed at establishing a Palestinian state in the West Bank, East Jerusalem and Gaza broke down in 2014 and show little sign of revival, and Israeli-Palestinian violence has escalated over the past year.
\nMost countries deem Israel\u2019s settlements illegal – a view Israel disputes. Palestinians say they eat away at the land they want for a future state and cite growing violence by settlers.
\nAbbas said Homesh must be removed. \u201cStatements of condemnation are no longer enough in the face of the (Israeli) extremist right-wing government,\u201d said his spokesman Nabil Abu Rudeineh.
\nIn a bid to quell international concern, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said that Israel has no intention of building any new settlements as his nationalist-religious government has vowed to bolster existing ones.
\nSpokespeople for Netanyahu, Defence Minister Yoav Gallant and Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich did not immediately respond to Reuters requests for comment on whether any of them had authorized the establishment of the new Homesh seminary.
\nLast week, Smotrich, who heads the pro-settler Jewish Zionism party and holds some West Bank powers, said Homesh had been officially added to settlement council land in order to work out a new building plan for the seminary school.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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