The Israeli “Jerusalem District Planning Committee” approved the building of 1,446 new settlement units southeast of Jerusalem on Tuesday, which the committee had been discussing previously. The plan extends control over the lands of the Palestinian town of Sur Baher, expanding the Israeli settlement of the “Lower Aqueduct”, located on an old Roman aqueduct that provided Jerusalem with water in antiquity. “The plan is not new, as it had been discussed at least since December,” Khalil Tafakji, a leading Palestinian expert on Israeli settlement in Jerusalem, told The New Arab. “The approval’s an…