The Israeli occupation authority (IOA) on Monday approved a settlement plan that aims at constructing 5632 new settlement units in the West Bank.
The settlement plan includes advancing a plan to build 4291 new settlement units before issuing tenders for establishing the units in addition to discussing a plan that aims at building 1332 units after discussing objections submitted against the plan.
According to Israeli media 1000 new settlement units will be established on Palestinian lands to the south of the West Bank city of Nablus pursuant to an agreement between Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu Israeli War Minister Yoav Gallant and Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich.
Netanyahu had ordered the building of 2000 settlement units in Eli settlement located between the West Bank cities of Nablus and Ramallah in response to the Palestinian resistance operation that resulted in the death of four Jewish settlers at the entrance of Eli.
