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Thu 11 Nov 2009Israel dismisses concerns over Gilo houses
ISRAELI LEADERS have dismissed mounting international criticism over plans to build an extra 900 homes in the Jerusalem neighbourhood of Gilo, on land captured by Israel in the 1967 Arab-Israeli war.
Foreign minister Avigdor Lieberman told his visiting French counterpart Bernard Kouchner yesterday that Gilo was an integral part of Jerusalem and Israel, similar to the cities of Tel Aviv and Herzliya.
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