Jerusalem, March 24, 2010 (Pal Telegraph) - The Jerusalem municipality gave final approval to a group of Israeli settlers construct 20 apartments in the neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah, in east Jerusalem.
The apartments will be built in The Shepherd Hotel area in the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood was purchased by American Jewish tycoon Irving Moskowitz in 1985 for $1 million.
The construction will include synagogue, playground, a three-story parking structure and an access road.
According to the Absentee Property Law and as a guardian of absentee property, the Israeli municipality took the ground of the Shepherd Hotel, which owned by Haj Amin Al-Husseini, the Mufti of Jerusalem in 1985, and then it built buildings for Israeli settlers.
The Israeli government announcement of building new settlement units hindered the process of indirect negotiations, which was scheduled to start between the Israelis and the Palestinian Authority.
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