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Official: Israel to expand West Bank settlements

14 May 2008

JERUSALEM - An Israeli official says the Housing and Construction minister is planning to approve the construction of hundreds of homes in West Bank settlements.

Shas party spokesman Roi Lachmanovitch says that Zeev Boim will approve construction on Sunday in the Beitar Illit settlement near Jerusalem, and other areas. The Shas religious party is a member of Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's coalition.

Lachmanovitch says Boim committed to the construction recently in a conversation with Shas leaders. Shas' announcement Wednesday came just hours before President Bush was slated to arrive in Israel to prod Israel and the Palestinians to negotiate a peace deal.

The Palestinians demand in the talks that Israel stop building in areas they want for a future state.