[Yediot Ahronot-Hebrew] Shimon Shiffer - The U.S. has asked Israel to stop building in the Gilo neighborhood of Jerusalem. Special U.S. Middle East envoy Sen. George Mitchell made the request on Monday to Prime Minister Netanyahu's special representative Yitzhak Molcho. While this is not the first time that U.S. representatives have raised the issue, some in the Prime Minister's Office were amazed at the request. "This related to a routine procedure of the regional planning committee to approve construction in the Gilo neighborhood of Jerusalem," they said. "The Gilo neighborhood is an integral part of Jerusalem, in the same way that the Ramat Eshkol, Rehavia, French Hill, and Pisgat Zeev neighborhoods are part of the united city, and there is no difference between construction in these neighborhoods of Jerusalem and construction in Tel Aviv or Haifa."
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