The Palestinian Authority (PA) on Thursday blasted Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, after he announced plans to build 3,000 housing units in Jerusalem's Givat Hamatos and 2,200 housing units in the city's Har Homa neighborhood.

Nabil Abu Rudeineh, a spokesman for PA chairman Mahmoud Abbas, said in a statement quoted by the Wafa news agency that “Netanyahu’s insistence to build thousands of new settler units on the territories of the Palestinian state is a systematic destruction of the two-state solution.”


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