(Bloomberg) -- Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu directed his director general to submit for approval a new 300-home neighborhood in the West Bank Jewish settlement of Dolev in response to last week's murder of a 17-year-old Israeli girl who lived there.
“We will deepen our roots and strike our enemies,” Netanyahu said in a statement on Monday. “We will continue to strengthen and develop settlements.”
Read more: Blast in West Bank Kills 17-Year-Old Israeli Girl, Injures Two
The girl was killed in an attack near Dolev built on land occupied by Israel in 1967; her brother and father were wounded.
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