The Zionist entity unveiled plans on Friday to build more than 1,800 new settler homes, a watchdog said, as the United States tried to push faltering ’peace talks’ forward.

The Zionist entity unveiled plans on Friday to build more than 1,800 new settler homes, a watchdog said, as the United States tried to push faltering 'peace talks' forward.

The housing ministry announced the plans for 1,076 units in annexed east Jerusalem and 801 in the occupied West Bank, said the Israeli settlement watchdog Peace Now.

The move comes a week after US Secretary of State John Kerry visited the region in his latest effort to push Israeli and Palestinian officials towards an elusive peace deal.