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US slams Israel’s planned settlement expansion

The Biden administration is making public its formerly private objections to Israel's policies.

WEst Bank settlement
Israeli settlers gather in the newly established wildcat outpost of Eviatar near the northern Palestinian city of Nablus in the occupied West Bank, on June 28, 2021. — MENAHEM KAHANA/AFP via Getty Images

US State Department spokesperson Ned Price said Tuesday that Washington opposes a plan by Israel’s government to expand settlements in the occupied Palestinian West Bank.

The Biden administration is “deeply concerned” about Israel’s move to advance plans for thousands of new settlement housing units, “many of them deep in the West Bank.”

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