Published On 1/6/2026
Yesterday, Sunday, the Wall and Settlement Resistance Committee revealed an Israeli plan to build 2,721 new settlement units in a number of West Bank settlements.
The Authority said – in a statement – that the Supreme Planning Council of the Occupation Civil Administration will hold a session on Wednesday, June 3, to discuss a new package of settlement plans, explaining that these plans include pushing for the construction of no less than 2,721 new settlement units in West Bank settlements, in addition to organizational and structural plans aimed at expanding the influence of the settlements and strengthening their legal and planning structure.
The Commission indicated that the proposed units are distributed among several settlements throughout the West Bank, the most prominent of which is a plan to build 1,006 units in the Giv’ot settlement, west of the city of Bethlehem, which is being dedicated as an independent settlement after its separation from the Alon Shvut settlement in March 2025.
She added that 922 units are planned in the Har Bracha settlement, south of the city of Nablus, 455 units in the Mevo Dotan settlement, west of the city of Jenin, and 234 units in the Kiryat Arba settlement, east of the city of Hebron, and others.
Imposing new facts
According to the Wall Resistance Authority, the session includes discussing a number of plans for amending building boundaries, changing land uses, and modernizing building systems in several settlements, which reflects the occupation government’s continued completion of the planning and legal structure of the settlement project in parallel with the urban expansion of the settlements.
The Commission said that these plans reflect the occupation authorities’ continued imposition of new realities on the Palestinian land, by expanding existing settlements and creating settlement centers of an urban nature.
It warned that this step threatens to further confiscate Palestinian lands and sever geographical communication between Palestinian communities, and constitutes an extension of the creeping annexation policies implemented by the occupation government in various regions of the West Bank.
Data published by the Commission – on March 30, on the occasion of Earth Day – indicate that about 542 Israeli settlements and settlement outposts are spread in the West Bank, representing 192 settlements and 350 outposts, including more than 165 outposts created after October 2023, and 59 outposts during the year 2025 alone, all inhabited by more than 780 people. A thousand settlers.
Since the start of the genocidal war on Gaza on October 8, 2023, the West Bank has witnessed an escalation in settler attacks protected by the Israeli army, especially in the rural and desert areas adjacent to settlements and settlement outposts, which repeatedly turn into starting points for attacks targeting Palestinians and their property.
The escalation resulted in the martyrdom of 1,168 Palestinians and the injury of 12,666 others, in addition to the arrest of nearly 23,000 and the displacement of 33,000, according to data published by the Palestinian government media office on May 26.
Source: Al Jazeera + Anatolia + Palestinian press
