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<div id="divNewsDatetime">PressTV | Sun Mar 6, 2011 5:14AM</div>
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<div id="divLead">Israel&#8217;s  Central Bureau of Statistics says illegal settlement construction in  the occupied West bank has climbed sharply in the past five months.</div>
<p>The data, released by the bureau on Saturday, indicates that the  Israeli regime started over 114 settlement units during the 10-month  construction freeze Tel Aviv announced in November 2009, <em>Ha&#8217;aretz</em> newspaper reported.</p>
<p>The 114 units, the construction of which began during the so-called  freeze have now been completed, as well as over 1,175 other units that  started constructing before the partial moratorium, which excluded  al-Quds (Jerusalem).</p>
<p>The data also reveals that construction of over 427 housing units  has begun since the expiration of the freeze in late September.</p>
<p>The figures released by the Central Bureau of Statistics are,  however, based on partial information and do not cover a reportedly  dramatic rise in illegal construction in West Bank outposts, which are  not officially documented.</p>
<p>It does not include caravans and tents that are often placed in illegal outposts in order to settle in the land, either.</p>
<p>Israel&#8217;s insistence to resume its West Bank settlement construction  projects &#8212; deemed by the international community as illegal &#8212; prompted  Palestinian Authority negotiators to walk out a new round of  US-sponsored direct talks.</p>
<p>Palestinians have repeatedly voiced concern about Israel&#8217;s efforts  to wipe out the Islamic and Palestinian identity of the occupied  territories, East al-Quds in particular, to effectively render the  establishment of a future Palestinian state unfeasible.</p>
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