The World : Ethiopians in West Bank
Israel has quietly moved hundreds of Jewish Ethiopian immigrants into the West Bank despite U.S. opposition to settling them in Israeli-occupied Arab land. About 400 Ethiopian Jews live in government housing in Kiryat Arba and make up about 8% of the settlement, according to an official at a Hebrew language school in which many of the immigrants study. “American aid is not supposed to help in Jewish settlement of the West Bank, which the United States opposes,” a U.S. Embassy official in Tel Aviv said.
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