Millions needed to upgrade east Jerusalem: report
AFP
Date: 12/31/2010
JERUSALEM (AFP) – More than 500 million dollars are needed to upgrade infrastructure in Arab neighbourhoods of annexed east Jerusalem, the results of an official Israeli study published on Friday showed.
Some 420 million euros (559 million dollars, two billion shekels) are needed to upgrade Arab districts if they are to be at par with Jewish neighbourhoods of the the Holy City, the report carried by Yediot Aharonot newspaper said.
The estimate is almost twice what was projected 10 years ago by city planners to modernise infrastructure in east Jerusalem, according to the study by the Jerusalem development office.
More than 200,000 Israelis live in east Jerusalem, a mostly Arab district annexed by Israel after the 1967 war.
Settlement construction on occupied land in the West Bank and Jerusalem remains one of the thorniest issues in the Israeli–Palestinian conflict, and torpedoed the last round of direct talks between the two sides.
The negotiations –– the first direct talks in nearly two years –– were relaunched on September 2 in Washington but ground to a halt just over three weeks later after a partial Israeli settlements freeze expired on September 26.
Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas has said he will not return to talks unless Israel reimposes a building ban and also extends it to east Jerusalem, which the Palestinians want for the capital of their future state.
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