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Source: https://jcpa.org/article/givat-hamatos-strategic-jerusalem-neighborhood-freeze/
Givat Hamatos: A Strategic Jerusalem Neighborhood
(Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs-Jan. 4, 2018) Nadav Shragai - On Nov. 15, 2020, the Israel Lands Authority published a request for bids to construct 1,257 homes in the southern Jerusalem neighborhood of Givat Hamatos (Airplane Hill), one of the last reserves of land available for building within the city. Some of the housing will serve the adjacent Arab neighborhood of Beit Safafa. The plan was approved in 2014, but has been frozen for years due to pressure from the U.S. and EU. Before the Six-Day War, there were Jordanian outposts at the spot and sometimes they fired at Jewish neighborhoods.