RAMALLAH, West Bank: Hours before Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak leaves for the United States, the Defense Ministry yesterday notified the High Court of Justice that in accordance with a 1996 government master plan for the construction of 1,450 housing units in a new neighborhood in the West Bank settlement of Adam, the ministry has at this stage approved 190 units, of which 50 have received final approval. The government informed the court that the 50 housing units in Adam, a settlement located near Jerusalem, are intended to house the Jewish occupiers expected to be evacuated from the unauthorized Migron settlement outpost, near Ramallah. This number does not include public buildings and roads. "The understandings were approved by senior government officials, Council of Settlements representatives and West Bank settler...
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