A plan to build 1,600 settler homes in East Jerusalem has been approved by Israel's interior minister Eli Yishai on 11.08.2011. The project triggered a diplomatic row following its announcement last year during a visit by U.S. Vice President Joe Biden.
The decision could weigh on US-led efforts to discourage the Palestinian moves towards a United Nations endorsement of statehood in the absence of peace talks suspended due to Israeli settlement construction.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu does not agree with cuts in military spending to finance social measures.
At the same date, a member of the armed section of Hamas was killed in an explosion quoted as accidental in Southern Gaza Strip.
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