Israel Advances Building in East Jerusalem Before Trump Exit

The Palestinian city of Hebron in the occupied West bank.

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Israel is pushing forward with controversial plans to develop a Jewish enclave in a strategic area of East Jerusalem, in the waning days of a Trump administration sympathetic to Israeli settlement activity.