Specialist in settlement affairs Qais Naser said that the Israeli ministry of housing is working on building and marketing about 5,000 new settlement units in the occupied territories of Jerusalem and the West Bank.
Naser affirmed in a statement on Saturday that this Israeli ministry sold in 2010 more than 1,400 housing units in settlements in Jerusalem and the West Bank, especially the settlements of Homat Shmuel, Ma'ale Adumim and Pisgat Ze'ev.
He added that the ministry is embarking on marketing the sale of other 594 housing units in Pisgat Ze'ev settlement and 1,280 others in Homat Shmuel, and until now it has sold 312 units in these two settlements.
The specialist affirmed that the ministry announced during November 2010 tenders for the construction and leasing of 80 housing units in Pisgat Ze'ev and 158 others in Ramot settlement, adding that the Israeli committee of planning and building during the same month also declared plans to build 1,230 units in Har Homa, Homat Shmuel, and Ramot.
In another incident, Yerushalayim newspaper reported on Friday that the Israeli committee of planning and building intends to build 212 housing units north of Ramat Shlomo settlement in Jerusalem.
