Ground was broken in the West Bank for the first new Israeli settlement in two decades to compensate for the Amona outpost demolished earlier this year, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu Tuesday said as President Donald Trump's Mideast envoy, as well as son-in-law and aide Jared Kushner, arrive in the region for talks with Israel and Palestinian leaders.
Amona will be the first Jewish settlement in the West Bank for more than 25 years and will rehouse 40 families it evicted from a wildcat outpost in February 2017.
"The large number of settlement-related activities documented during this period undermine the chances for the establishment of a viable, continuous Palestinian state as part of a two-state solution", he said.
Israel blames the violence on incitement by the Palestinian leadership, while the Palestinian Authority, which exercises limited self-rule in the West Bank, says desperation over Israeli occupation of land sought by Palestinians for a state is the cause.
Jewish settlements in the West Bank are regarded as illegal under worldwide law and are considered one of the main obstacles to a two-state solution, taking land claimed by Palestinians for a future state.
According to Peace Now, the new settlement's location was "strategic for the fragmentation of the West Bank".
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Greenblatt is to be joined by Trump's son-in-law and adviser Jared Kushner on Wednesday.
Greenblatt arrived in Israel on Monday for preparatory talks in both Jerusalem and Ramallah, and will remain for follow-up discussions after Kushner has departed, officials said.
Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu even posted a photograph on Twitter of cranes starting to build homes in the new settlement called Amichai. Settlements are also considered an obstacle to peace because they are built on land Palestinians claim for a future state.
The worldwide community considers all Jewish settlements in the West Bank illegal but Israel draws a distinction between those it sanctions and those it does not - so-called outposts. "They are a unsafe actor who has no care for the Palestinians, no care for the Israelis, and they are determined to destroy everything in their path", Haley said.
Trump administration officials have said that if they are going to make progress on the Israel-Palestinian conflict, they do not want to get bogged down in process but to move more rapidly toward resolving what are known as "final status" issues, the complexities around Jerusalem, Palestinian refugees, water resources, security and borders.
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