Netanyahu visits Gilo to defend Jerusalem construction

Published on October 23, 2012

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu visited the Jerusalem neighborhood of Gilo following an international outcry over the approval of nearly 800 apartments there.

Israel approves more expansion of settlement near Jerusalem

Published on October 18, 2012

Israel on Thursday issued a detailed plan for the building of some 800 new homes on annexed land in the West Bank that is certain to attract further international condemnation of its settlement policies.

Jerusalem committee approves new Gilo housing

Published on December 28, 2011

A Jerusalem building committee has approved the construction of 130 new apartments in the eastern Jerusalem neighborhood of Gilo.

Peace Now: Israel planning new East Jerusalem settlement

Published on October 14, 2011

Israel plans to build more than 2,600 housing units in a new urban settlement in East Jerusalem, an anti-settlement group said on Friday, angering Palestinians who want a halt to all such projects before they return to peace talks.

Netanyahu rejects widespread criticism of homes plan

Published on September 28, 2011

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Wednesday rejected Western and Arab complaints that the planned construction of 1,100 new homes in Gilo on annexed land close to Jerusalem would complicate Middle East peace efforts.

Clinton: Israeli settlement move counter-productive

Published on September 27, 2011

Israel's decision to build 1,100 settlement homes on West Bank land is counter-productive to reviving peace talks with the Palestinians, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said on Tuesday.

Gilo building plan gets go-ahead

Published on September 27, 2011

Jerusalem's district planning committee has approved a construction plan to build 1,100 housing units in Gilo, a Jewish neighborhood of 40,000 in eastern Jerusalem.

Jerusalem approves 900 Gilo houses

Published on July 5, 2011

The Jerusalem municipality has approved a controversial plan to build 900 new homes in the Gilo neighborhood of eastern Jerusalem.

EU policy chief joins U.S., U.N. in rapping Gilo housing approval

Published on April 6, 2011

European Union Foreign Policy Chief Catherine Ashton joined the United States and the United Nations in condemning a Jerusalem committee's approval of new housing in Gilo. Ashton said Wednesday that she was "deeply disappointed" in the initial approval Monday by the Jerusalem Planning and Building Committee of the construction of 942 housing units in Gilo, a residential district in mostly Arab eastern Jerusalem. Other committees already had approved the plan. The units would be built on privately owned land as well as land owned by the Jewish National Fund, Haaretz reported.

Gilo barriers to be dismantled

Published on August 12, 2010

The concrete barriers surrounding the Jerusalem neighborhood Gilo will be removed, Israel's military announced.