Sentence examples for building in the settlements from inspiring English sources
The rub remains the continued building in the settlements.
The Palestinian president, Mahmoud Abbas, has refused to negotiate until building in the settlements stops.
Indeed, not only did Israel carry on building in East Jerusalem, it also carried on building in the settlements.
There is also a disproportionately high level of state-supported building in the settlements compared with most regions of Israel.
International players are seeking ways to resume Israeli-Palestinian peace talks, which stalled last September when a partial Israeli moratorium on new building in the settlements expired.
It was the Palestinians who walked out of the last round of peace negotiations last September after a partial Israeli moratorium on building in the settlements expired.
The interaction between the building stiffness and the ground homogenises and reduces absolute settlements related to the position of the building in the settlement trough (Giardina et al. 2012).
Most of that was private construction in small, outlying settlements, rather than state-sponsored building in the larger settlements of the blocs.
"They are delaying troop withdrawals, failing to release prisoners and building more in the settlements," Mr. Tawfik said.
At the same time, he instructed the Israeli military authorities in the West Bank to issue a temporary order freezing other new building starts in the settlements, in line with an announcement on Wednesday by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
