[IsraelTimes] But official says plan for 300-home neighborhood in Dolev is not new; directive from Netanyahu latest example of building beyond Green Line in response to Paleostinian terrorism.Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Monday he has directed the Defense Ministry body responsible for authorizing West Bank construction to advance a plan for a new neighborhood in the Dolev settlement, near where a terror attack last week killed 17-year-old Rina Shnerb.
"We will deepen our roots and strike at our enemies. We will continue to strengthen and develop [Israeli] settlement," Netanyahu said in a statement announcing the directive for some 300 new homes.
Binyamin Regional Council chairman Yisrael Gantz told The Times of Israel that the project that Netanyahu ordered be advanced at the next meeting of the Civil Administration’s High Planning Subcommittee had already been set and could have been on the agenda regardless. The Defense Ministry body’s next session is not slated for another three months.
Last Friday, a terrorist bombing at a natural spring near Dolev killed Shnerb and maimed her father and brother.
Netanyahu has frequently heeded calls from right-wing MKs and settler leaders demanding further development of the Israeli presence beyond the Green Line in response to terror attacks.
Earlier this month, he vowed to push for Israeli illusory sovereignty in "all parts" of the West Bank in response to the killing of 18-year-old Dvir Sorek outside the Migdal Oz settlement.