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Houses under construction in the illegal Israeli settlement of Maale Adumim in the occupied West Bank, Monday, June 26, 2023
ISRAEL’S far-right government has approved plans to build over 5,000 new homes in Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank.
Monday’s move threatens to heighten tensions with Palestinians residents, who have seen an increase in violent settler attacks in recent days.
The decision came in the face of growing United States criticism of Israel’s settlement policies.
Bezalel Smotrich’s measures to extend Israeli property law into the West Bank are a continuation of a decades-long project to dispossess Palestinians and preclude statehood, argues HUGH LANNING
For those who lived in Yanoun, its disappearance is not just a local tragedy, but a stark symbol of escalating violence, displacement and impunity across the occupied West Bank, says JANE HARRIES
