Alwaght- The Israeli regime has defied international laws and approved plans for the construction of more than 1,000 new settler units in the occupied West Bank.
The construction of the Zionist settlements is blatant violation of international laws and a United Nations Security Council resolution against the Tel Aviv regime’s land grab policies in the occupied Palestinian territories.
Peace Now, an Israeli anti-settlement group that monitors settlement activity in the West Bank, said on Wednesday that there were plans for 1,004 units approved by a committee of Israel’s ministry of military affairs.
According to the NGO, the plans also include 370 housing units in the Adam neighborhood near the city of Ramallah.
Peace Now says 96 percent of those approved units "are in isolated settlements that Israel will likely need to evacuate within the framework of a two-state agreement."
According to Peace Now, the number of units included in the West Bank settlement project increased to 6,742 in 2017 compared with 2,629 the previous year. Plans have been advanced for 3,794 units so far this year.
Less than a month before US President Donald Trump took office in January 2017, the United Nations Security Council adopted Resolution 2334, calling on Israel to “immediately and completely cease all settlement activities in the occupied Palestinian territories, including East al-Quds (Jerusalem).
Some 600,000 Zionists live in settlements in the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem - territories captured by the usurper Israeli regime in the 1967 war.
The international community, along with the Palestinians, considers the settlements illegal and an impediment to peace.
