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Israel continues its expansionist plan despite sanctions and division with its allies. He Civil Administration Planning Council, The Israeli body that manages administrative affairs in the occupied West Bank, approved this Wednesday the construction of 764 homes in settlements of this Palestinian territory.
This raises 29,300 houses in West Bank settlementsall of them illegal under international law, approved by Israel in 2025, according to the Israeli NGO Peace Now, which it described as a “historic record.”
The pacifist organization already warned on December 4 of the project vote: “Since November 2024, the High Planning Council has held weekly meetings to advance construction projects in settlements. The change to a weekly approval process not only normalizes construction in the (Palestinian) territories, it accelerates it.”
“Expropriation and total control”
The approved plans involve the construction of 230 homes in Beitar Illit (south), 478 in Hashmonaim (center) and 56 in Givat Zeev (center).
Both the Presidency of the Palestinian National Authority, which rules in limited areas of the West Bank because of the Israeli occupation, such as the Islamist group Hamaswho rules in the half of Gaza that is not under Israeli military rule, They condemned the measure.
The spokesman for the presidency of the ANP, Abu Rudeinahas pointed out that “the occupation Government is responsible for the serious repercussions of this destructive politics destined to ignite the region, dragging it into a cycle of violence and wars and undermining any efforts to pull the region out of the spiral of violence.
Hamas called the expansion of construction in the West Bank another “step” in Israel’s policy to “expropriate land and impose total control” on this territory.
“This colonial decision, along with previous ones, is a dangerous escalation and a flagrant challenge to international law and the relevant resolutions of the Security Council,” the Islamist group continued.
More than 700,000 settlers
Although settlements are legal under the law in Israel, unlike “outposts”, the beginning of a settlement, which the Government nevertheless ends up regularizing, all of them are illegal under international law.
In the summer of 2024, the International Court of Justice called on Israel to dismantle all its settlements in the West Bank and remove more than 503,700 colonists, according to United Nations data, who reside there.
Besides, Another 233,600 settlers live in East Jerusalem, talso occupied since 1967.