Jerusalem (CNN) -- Israeli officials could approve plans for building more than a thousand houses in a disputed neighborhood of Jerusalem, a city councilman said Sunday.
The Jerusalem municipality's planning commission is set to consider the construction of 1,400 more housing units near the neighborhood of Gilo, a large Jewish community on the southern outskirts of the city.
Meir Margalit, a Jerusalem city councilman from the left-wing Meretz party, said plans to build the units will be presented to the planning commission January 24.
"Even though it will take years before the construction begins, this action is beyond the last nail in the coffin of the peace process," he said. "After the peace process has already been killed they are firing a few more bullets into it, to make sure it's dead".
The spokesman's office for the Jerusalem municipality said Sunday that the planning commission is obligated by law to discuss any plan presented to it.
"When the plans reach the commission, they will be reviewed to see if they meet the professional criteria for city plans," the office said. CNN
