Palestine To Build
International Airport
The
Palestinian Government has approved a plan to build an
international airport in the West Bank.
A spokesman, Ghassan al-Khatib, said construction of an airport
was part of a bigger blueprint to claim a state within two
years.
’’This is going to be one of the biggest Palestinian
projects,’’ al-Khatib said.
He said the airport would be built between Jericho and Jerusalem
in the middle of the West Bank. Under the plan, an abandoned
airstrip near Jerusalem, the Qalandya airfield, would be
renovated.
The government also wants to rebuild Gaza airport which Israel
had gradually destroyed since its military operations in the
Gaza Strip in Year 2000.
Peace talks
Palestinian statehood negotiations with Israel have stopped for
more than a year, but Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad
had in June, announced a plan to prepare Palestinians for a
state by the end of 2011.
As peace talks were suspended, it is unclear if Israel will
allow Fayyad go on with his scheme, including the building of
the airports in the Israeli-occupied West Bank.
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