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<div id="divNewsDatetime">PressTV &#8211;  Sun Mar 13, 2011 11:14AM</div>
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<div id="divImageDesc">A Palestinian man walks on his property overlooking the Israeli settlement Har Homa in the Israeli-occupied West Bank.</div>
<div id="divLead">The  Palestinian Authority (PA) has condemned Israel&#8217;s approval of a plan to  construct hundreds more illegal settlements in occupied Palestinian  territories.</div>
<p>Palestinian chief negotiator Saeb Erakat says the PA &#8220;strongly  condemns the decision of the Israeli government to speed up and increase  the building of settlements.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;It strongly condemns the settler attacks against the Palestinian  people in the West Bank and we ask the Quartet to urgently intervene to  stop the actions of the settlers,&#8221; he told AFP.</p>
<p>The condemnation came after Tel Aviv ordered construction of hundreds of settlements in four areas of the occupied West Bank.</p>
<p>&#8220;The ministerial committee responsible for settlements had decided  to build several hundred units at Gush Etzion, Maale Adumim, Ariel and  Kyriat Sefer&#8221; in the West Back, announced the office of Israeli Prime  Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in a Sunday statement.</p>
<p>Censuring the decision as &#8220;a mistake,&#8221; Nabil Abu Rudeina, the  spokesman for Acting PA Chief Mahmud Abbas, said that the Israeli regime  is moving to create &#8220;big problems.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;The decision taken to build new settlements is a mistake and  unacceptable,&#8221; said Rudeina, adding &#8220;It will destroy everything and will  lead to big problems.&#8221;</p>
<p>The move would further complicate the stalled talks between Israeli and the PA officials.</p>
<p>Early this month, Israel&#8217;s Central Bureau of Statistics said that  the illegal settlement construction in the occupied West bank has  climbed sharply in the past five months.</p>
<p>The data, released by the bureau on March 5, indicates that the  Israeli regime started over 114 settlement units during the 10-month  construction freeze Tel Aviv announced in November 2009.</p>
<p>The 114 units, the construction of which began during the so-called  freeze, have now been completed. Additionally, the building of over  1,175 other units that started before the partial moratorium went into  effect, have also finished.</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>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 over efforts by the  Israeli regime 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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