The Jewish settlement of Modi’in Illit (Flash90).jpg Al-Jazeera / November 25, 2021 PA demands US intervention as Israel approves thousands of Jewish settlement homes in the occupied West Bank near Jerusalem. Israel has given initial approval to a plan that would expand Jerusalem’s municipal boundaries by building thousands of new illegal settlement homes on occupied West Bank land around the city, drawing a Palestinian demand that Washington intervene. On Wednesday, Jerusalem municipality green-lit what it described as a new eastern neighbourhood on lands located over the West Bank boundary, near the Palestinian hub city of Ramallah. The site, which once...