BEIT-UL-MOQADDAS (AFP) – Israel plans to put up for sale 3,000 new Jewish homes in Beit-ul-Moqaddas next year, mostly in Arab areas, a municipality official was quoted as saying by the weekly newspaper Kol Hair.

Shlomo Eshkol, an engineer appointed by the Beit-ul-Moqaddas municipality, also spoke of a long-term project to build 50,000 homes in Beit-ul-Moqaddas during the next decade, Kol Hair said in its latest edition.
Eshkol said the allocation of 3,000 new Beit-ul-Moqaddas homes in 2011 included the mostly Arab eastern sector of the Holy City which Palestinians view as the capital of their future state.
The plans were announced during a meeting between Beit-ul-Moqaddas mayor Nir Barkat and a group of 60 Israeli developers, the report said.
The homes would be available in west Beit-ul-Moqaddas's Jewish neighborhoods of Arnona and Ramat Rachel, as well as the east Jerusalem districts of Givat Hamatos and Har Homa.
Israel captured east Beit-ul-Moqaddas in the 1967 Six-Day War and later annexed it in a move the international community does not recognize.