Settlement freeze vow

BETHLEHEM: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu reportedly promised the US government that he would freeze the publication of new tenders for illegal Israeli settlement construction in the occupied Palestinian territory for the rest of 2017, Israeli media reported.

According to The Jerusalem Post, the alleged freeze was discovered when settlers from the Beit El settlement in the central occupied West Bank discovered that plans for 300 new settler homes – promised to the settlers by Netanyahu in exchange for a peaceful evacuation of the illegal Ulpana outpost – had been halted.