Israeli television has reported that the Prime Minister, Binyamin Netanyahu, has approved the building of two-hundred housing units at a Jewish settlement Qiryat Arbaon the outskirks of Hebron.

The report said the work would start tomorrow The television report said that the new development was a response to the killing of an Israeli guard shot dead last week by suspected Palestinian militants.

There has been no direct word of any new settlement from the Israeli government.