West Bank & Jerusalem
Palestinian commission counts 592 illegal Israeli West Bank settlements
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The number of illegal Israeli settlements and outposts in the occupied West Bank has reached 592 by the end of July, according to the Palestinian Wall and Settlement Resistance Commission, Middle East Eye reported. The figure marks an accounting of Israeli construction across territory that Palestinians seek for a future independent state.
The commission's count encompasses both formal settlements and smaller outposts scattered throughout the West Bank. The tally did not specify how many of the 592 represented newly constructed sites or whether the figure reflected a revised total of previously documented settlements and outposts. Israeli settlement expansion in occupied Palestinian territories remains a major point of international contention and a core issue in Palestinian-Israeli negotiations.
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