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Link: http://www.paltelegraph.com/palestine/west-bank/4655-israel-oks-new-settlement-in-west-bank
A day after the Palestinians agreed to resume peace talks with Israelis, Israeli occupation authorities authorized the construction of 112 new apartments in the West Bank despite a promise to slowdown settlement building. Word of the new construction in the Beitar Illit settlement came while the U.S. is trying to salvage peacemaking as Washington's special envoy to the Middle East, George Mitchell, is also meeting with Israeli and Palestinian leaders.