Jerusalem: A Palestinian labourer hauls stone facing at a new Israeli housing project in the East Jerusalem Jewish neighbourhood of Har Homa. Israel came under international criticism after it announced plans this week to build nearly 700 new Jewish homes in areas of the West Bank, such as Har Homa, it captured from Jordanian forces in the 1967 Six Day War and which it considers part of greater Jerusalem

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