JERUSALEM – The Israeli regime reportedly plans to build 9,000 settlerunits between two Palestinian neighborhoods in the occupied east Jerusalemal-Quds.

The anti-settlement monitoring group Peace Now said on Tuesday that thedetails of the plan — the first such project in the city in more than 20years — emerged a day after Israel’s transport ministry approved acontroversial proposal to extend a train line from Tel Aviv into theoccupied Old City of East Jerusalem al-Quds, Press TV has reported.

The settlement units, as Peace Now stated, would be built on the site ofAtarot airport located in northern al-Quds and between two Palestinianneighborhoods.

The watchdog group warned that the planned construction would drive “awedge in the heart of the Palestinian urban continuity between Ramallah andEast Jerusalem [al-Quds], thus preventing the establishment of a viablePalestinian state with its capital in East Jerusalem [al-Quds].”

Peace now added that the plan “also includes the demolition of dozens ofPalestinian residential units” that were built in the area throughout theyears.

Under a so-called Middle East peace plan unveiled last month by the US,Israel will have sovereignty over all of al-Quds as well as settlements inthe occupied territories.