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Israel OKs 13 New Settlements to ‘Fracture’ West Bank and Create ‘Irreversible Status Quo’
The first phase will add four to six settlements and legalize outposts, while Palestinian officials warn it will deepen fragmentation.
- On Thursday, the Security Cabinet approved plans for 13 new settlements in The Binyamin regional area of the occupied West Bank, aiming to link settlement blocs and tighten control over strategic hilltops.
- According to the Palestinian Center for Israeli Studies , settlement outposts have accelerated significantly, with the annual average rising from eight between 2012 and 2022 to 86 in 2025.
- Investments worth around 1 billion shekels will back the project, with several pastoral outposts expected to receive formal legal status to access government funding and infrastructure.
- Critics including the Jerusalem Governorate and the UK-based International Center warned the plan will isolate East Jerusalem and undermine prospects for a contiguous Palestinian state.
- Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and officials including Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich and National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir have vowed to annex parts of the West Bank, despite International Court rulings on the settlements' illegality.
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Israel OKs 13 New Settlements to ‘Fracture’ West Bank and Create ‘Irreversible Status Quo’
Israel’s Security Cabinet on Thursday approved the construction of 13 new settlements in the central West Bank, a move critics slammed as the latest effort to “fracture” Palestine and cement Israeli control over the illegally occupied territory with the goal of annexation. Israeli media reported that the Security Cabinet, led…
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Leaning Left4Leaning Right1Center2Last UpdatedBias Distribution57% Left
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