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A plan to build thousands of homes for Jewish settlers in the West Bank has been approved by Israel's government. The decision defied U.S. criticism of Israel's settlement policies.
Israel's far-right government on Monday approved plans to build over 5,000 new homes in Jewish settlements in the West Bank, Israeli media said, a move that threatened to worsen increasingly strained relations with the United States.