JERUSALEM, Aug. 26 (Rebel News) -- The construction of Jewish settlements in the West Bank has nearly doubled over 2007, despite the Zionist regime's pledge to freeze such activities, a Jewish watchdog said Tuesday.
According to figures from the Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS), construction in the settlements has increased by a factor of 1.8 by comparison to the same period last year, said the Settlement Watch Team of the monitoring group Peace Now in a report.
"The Housing Ministry initiated 433 new housing units during the period of January-May 2008, compared to just 240 housing units during the same period of 2007," said the report, noting that construction initiated by the Housing Ministry accounted for 64 percent of all the construction counted in the West Bank by the CBS in recent months.
