JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israel pursued plans for nearly 14,000 new homes for settlers during now-suspended peace negotiations with the Palestinians, an Israeli watchdog group said on Tuesday as the original deadline for a deal expired.
In a statement on the end of the nine-month negotiating period, Saeb Erekat, the chief Palestinian delegate to the U.S.-sponsored talks, cited settlement building in the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem as a main reason for their failure.
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