Israel’s war minister Avigdor Lieberman announced on Thursday that he intends to have the government approve on the construction of 31 new settlement units in the Hezekiah neighborhood in the southern occupied West Bank city of al-Khalil.
Lieberman tweeted that the recently approved a plan to build residential and public facilities in an attempt to boost settlement across the occupied West Bank.
Between 500000 and 600000 Israelis live in Jewish-only settlements across the occupied territories in violation of international law.
All settlements across the West Bank are illegal under international law particularly article 49 of the Fourth Geneva Convention which establishes that the occupying power shall not deport or transfer parts of its own population into the territory it occupies.
