میدل-ایست-آیIsrael advanced plans for 26,000 new settlements since start of 2025: Arij
Israel advanced plans for 26,000 new settlements since start of 2025: Arij
The Applied Research Institute – Jerusalem (Arij) said Israel has advanced plans to build more than 26,000 new settlement units in the occupied West Bank since the beginning of the year.
These plans cover over 30,000 dunums (around 3,000 hectares) of Palestinian land.
In its report, Arij said that between the start of 2025 and the end of October, 194 settlement plans were proposed - most of them concentrated in the Jerusalem governorate, signalling one of the largest expansion drives in recent years.
The analysis shows that the new plans mainly target areas around occupied East Jerusalem, with the settlements of Maale Adumim, to the east, and Givat Zeev, to the northwest, identified as key centres of expansion.
