Source: Al Jazeera [Qatari state media]
“Far-right Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich has announced a major expansion of illegal [squats] in the occupied West Bank, as he pushes to annex more of the Palestinian territory. Smotrich said on Wednesday that a planning committee had approved the construction of 2,162 new Jewish homes, of which 1,006 units will be in a new illegal [squat] near Jerusalem, 922 near the city of Nablus and 234 near Hebron.” (06/04/26)