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Israel has approved the expansion of a Jewish school for settlers living in the centre of the Palestinian city of Hebron in the occupied West Bank.
Israel’s Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich announced the plans a day after saying he had scrapped a deal that gave the Palestinian municipality control over certain planning and construction around Hebron’s historic core.
The enclave around the Cave of the Patriarchs is home to more than 1,000 Jewish settlers.
Smotrich’s building announcement comes after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s security cabinet approved steps earlier this year to make it ​easier for settlers to buy land in the West Bank and give Israeli authorities more enforcement powers in the territory.
