Topic - Rawabi
Subscribe to this topic via RSS or ATOM, meaning "The Hills") is the first Palestinian planned city in the West Bank. Rawabi is to be located near Birzeit and Ramallah. A master plan has been drawn up for the city, which will consist of 10,000 homes in six neighborhoods with a population of 40,000. Construction began in January 2010. The project has faced criticism from a number of Palestinian movements as well as from some Israeli settler groups, for different reasons. - Source: Wikipedia