Qais Nasser, also a lecturer in the field of planning and construction and an activist from the 1948 Palestinian territories, said that 668 homes were sold in the settlement of Modi'in, to the southwest of Ramallah, 319 homes in the settlement of Har Homa, to the ease of Jerusalem, 101 homes in Ma'aleh Adumim, to the east of Jerusalem, 126 homes in Beitar Elit, to the west of Bethlehem, and 78 homes in Giv'at Ze'ev, located in East Jerusalem.
Nasser added that the other 108 homes were sold in several West Bank and East Jerusalem's settlements.
The activist said that the sold homes constitute 35 percent of the housing units the Israeli Ministry of Housing has sold to Jewish occupiers.
Nasser warned that the Israeli ministry is planning to build and sell 5,000 housing units in West Bank and East Jerusalem.
He added that the ministry will publish tenders for the construction of 3,300 new homes in the settlements of Har Homa, Homat Shmuel, to the south of Jerusalem, Ramot, to the northwest of Jerusalem, and Ramat Shlomo, to the north of Jerusalem.
The development came a day after the US vetoed a Palestinian-Arab draft resolution presented to the United Nations Security Council that condemns Jewish settlements in the Palestinian territories. The veto has outraged the Palestinians.
Tawfik Al-Tirawi, a member of the Fatah's Central Committee, called on the Palestinians to consider next Friday a day of rage and demonstrations in the Palestinian territories to condemn the US vote against the resolution.
"The American veto reveals the real face of America and its bias to injustice and repression of the occupation against the people. This expresses the lies of freedom and democracy the United States is calling for," Al-Tirawi said, adding "when we call for freedom and democracy, the US stands to Israel's side."
The US administration has been sponsoring the peace negotiations between Israel and the Palestinians. However, the Israeli-Palestinian direct peace talks were suspended on Oct. 2, one month after it was launched in Washington, after Israel refused to freeze settlement construction.
On Sept. 26, Israel refused to extend a ten-month moratorium over settlement freeze in the West Bank and east Jerusalem. The Palestinians had then suspended the talks and insisted that they won't get back to the negotiation table until settlements are stopped.
