In statements to Shehab news agency, analyst Khalil al-Tafakji asserted that Benjamin Netanyahu’s government wants to sever the geographical contiguity of the territory and control Palestinian lands.

It is not simply a matter of recognizing outposts to convert them into settlements, but of forming settlement blocs that fill the gaps and control large areas of land, he emphasized.

Al-Tafakji accused the neighboring country of attempting to draw new borders and warned that this strategy threatens the establishment of a Palestinian state, with East Jerusalem as its capital.

According to the Israeli NGO Peace Now, authorities approved the construction of more than 28,000 housing units for Jews in the West Bank in 2025.

In a report, the peace organization detailed that during those 12 months, the Higher Planning Council of the Civil Administration (an institution under the Army) gave the green light to the construction of 28,163 units, an unprecedented record number for a single year.

More than 750,000 Israeli settlers live in this Palestinian territory, including some 250,000 in occupied Jerusalem, according to official figures, despite international condemnation.

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