Palestinians decry Israeli housing plan
Israel announced plans to build 307 homes in a disputed East Jerusalem neighborhood, drawing quick Palestinian condemnation that the move would undermine peace talks.
The new housing would expand Har Homa, a Jewish neighborhood in an area that Palestinians claim as capital of a future state. Palestinian Authority officials appealed to the U.S. to block the project, but Israel says a pledge to halt settlement activity does not apply anywhere in the holy city.
Har Homa, where about 4,000 Israelis now live, is just inside the expanded city limits of Jerusalem, drawn after Israel captured East Jerusalem in 1967.
Israel has built a string of Jewish neighborhoods in East Jerusalem, with about 180,000 residents. Har Homa, at the southern edge of the city line, is the newest.
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