DHAKA: Israel’s plan to build over 1,000 new homes for settlers in annexed east Jerusalem is likely to cause an ‘explosion’ of violence.

A senior Palestinian official warned on Monday, reports The Straits Times.

‘Today (Israeli prime minister Benjamin) Netanyahu approved the building of 1,060 apartments in east Jerusalem ... Such unilateral acts will lead to an explosion,’ Jibril Rajoub of Palestinian leader Mahmud Abbas’s Fatah party, told reporters at a news conference in the West Bank city of Ramallah.

BDST: 1742 HRS, OCT 27, 2014