European Union Foreign Policy Chief Catherine Ashton said Wednesday that she is "disappointed" by Israel's plans to build new Jewish homes in the southern Jerusalem neighborhood of Gilo.
"I am deeply disappointed by the approval of 942 new housing units in the Israeli settlement of Gilo," Ashton said. "The EU is also closely following upcoming plans for settlements on the Mount Scopus Slopes, in Har Homa C and in Pisgat Z'ev."
Ashton specifically named Jerusalem neighborhoods liberated from Jordan during the 1967 Six Day War that nearly the entire Israeli public views as rightfully Jewish but the international community hopes to tear away from Israel.
"I am deeply disappointed by the approval of 942 new housing units in the Israeli settlement of Gilo," Ashton said. "The EU is also closely following upcoming plans for settlements on the Mount Scopus Slopes, in Har Homa C and in Pisgat Z'ev."
Ashton specifically named Jerusalem neighborhoods liberated from Jordan during the 1967 Six Day War that nearly the entire Israeli public views as rightfully Jewish but the international community hopes to tear away from Israel.