JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Housing starts in Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank are up by 70 percent this year, the anti-settlement Peace Now group said on Thursday, despite reports Israel has been quietly delaying new construction.
The figure related to the first six months of 2013 - before Israeli-Palestinian peace talks resumed in July - and was likely to deepen Palestinian concern over the pace of settlement building on land they seek for a state.
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