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Israel plans to build ten new Zionist settlements in Naqab region

Five settlements will be built near the city of Arad and another five close to the vital road that connects Beersheba and Dimona cities

Israel's interior minister said on Wednesday that the government will approve ten new settlements in the Naqab region at a cabinet meeting next Sunday. The announcement follows a recent stabbing and ramming attack that killed four Zionists in Beersheba.
 

Minister of the Interior Ayelet Shaked and Zeev Elkin, the housing minister, said that five settlements would be built near the city of Arad and another five close to the vital road that connects Beersheba and Dimona cities.

 

"This historic and exciting decision has strategic and national importance in strengthening the settlement of the Negev. Creating ten new communities is Zionism in all its glory," Shaked said.

 

Elkin said that the building scheme would strengthen the economy in the Naqab, known in Israel as the Negev, making it more desirable for Israeli families to move and live there and enhancing security in the countey' southern and largest region.

 

Almost 45 percent of Israelis live in the Tel Aviv metropolitan area, which stretches along the Mediterranean coast. However, the Naqab, an arid and desert terrain that makes up almost half of Israel's size, holds only just under 9 percent of the Israel's population.

 

In December and January, hundreds of Palestinians protested against the JNF forestation plan, which they claim is a pretext to pushing them out from their lands to make way for new settlements. The plan was temporarily put on hold .




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