Settlement construction

The Knesset's foreign affairs and defense committee chief also defended Itamar Ben-Gvir's visit to Temple Mount last week.

The new village of Givat Shaked, which seems aimed at attracting Jewish residents, would inhibit any future plan to connect the village of Beit Safafa to the West Bank.

The Nahala Movement campaign is an effort to focus the attention on the settlements, and to bring the spotlight back on the issue of a Palestinian state.

“We have only just begun,” veteran settler leader and Nahala co-chair Daniella Weiss told reporters.

The government’s approach until now has been to avoid collective punishment against Palestinian civilians. There are now calls on the government to change its tactics.

The move helps shore up Prime Minister Naftali Bennett's fragile coalition but will likely anger the Biden Administration.

There are some 100 outposts in Judea and Samaria, most of which are similar to established settlements, but lack authorization.

The startling statistics show that in just the past two years, from 2019 to 2021, the Palestinians have built a whopping 5,907 illegal structures in Area C.

The plans to construct new Palestinian homes are part of a series of gestures Prime Minister Bennett's government has made to the Palestinians.

Nature and Parks Authority insists graves that were illegally placed in the public area in recent years will not be disturbed.