Israeli officials lay cornerstone for new settlement on Palestinian land near Jenin

LONDON: Israeli ministers, members of the Knesset and other officials on Sunday laid the cornerstone for a new settlement, Emek Dotan, on land belonging to the Palestinian town of Arraba, southwest of Jenin in the occupied West Bank, local media reported. Tareq Eghbariyeh, the Jenin Governorate’s settlement affairs official, told the Palestinian news agency WAFA that the project marked a significant escalation in Israeli settlement expansion and would further limit Palestinians’ access to their land.

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