‘Israel’ publishes detailed plan for permanent US Embassy building in Jerusalem

Occupied Jerusalem (QNN)- A detailed plan for the permanent US Embassy building in occupied Jerusalem was published on Tuesday by Israeli occupation municipality, The Times of Israel reported.

According to the Israeli newspaper, Jerusalem’s Local Planning and Building Committee published the detailed building plan for the permanent US Embassy in occupied Jerusalem, which will replace the current temporary mission that has been used since former US president Donald Trump transferred it from Tel Aviv in a provocative move in 2018.

The diplomatic compound will be built on the abandoned Allenby military base on the outskirts of the Talpiot neighborhood, which was constructed by the Ottomans and later used by the Israeli occupation until the 1990s.

The Times of Israel said the embassy will be situated between Hebron Road, Hanoch Albek Street and Daniel Yanovski Street — an area that is just inside the 1949 Green Line, separating the 1948-occupied Palestine from the other occupied Palestinian territories of the eastern part of Jerusalem and the West Bank.

It is adjacent to a potential site for a UK embassy as former British Prime Minister Liz Truss announced in September that she was weighing the relocation of Britain’s Israel embassy in Tel Aviv to the occupied city of Jerusalem.

The new compound will contain the embassy building, offices, staff residence, parking and security buildings. The statement did not provide an estimate as to when its construction would be completed.

Jerusalem Deputy Mayor Fleur Hassan-Nahoum said in a statement that the plan was published following “four years of hard work” with the US mission.

In 2017, former US President Donald Trump recognized Jerusalem as Israel’s capital and moved the U.S. Embassy to the occupied Jerusalem in May 2018, prompting criticism from the Palestinians, most Muslim-majority countries, and many states in Europe, as they were concerned that it would undermine prospects for a two-state solution to the so-called “Israeli-Palestinian conflict.”

The United States, Honduras, Guatemala, and Kosovo are the only nations that have their embassies in occupied Jerusalem.