Israel plans to confiscate more than 23,000 dunams (around 5,900 acres) in the occupied West Bank and declare it as “state” territory with the aim of illegal settlement expansion, with the move being described as the largest Israeli land grab in decades.
“More than 23,000 dunams of land for the benefit of the settlement in Yosh. We determine facts on the ground and thwart the establishment of a Palestinian state!” Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich said via X.
According to Israel’s Channel 14, the move is one of the largest land appropriations since the Oslo Accords in 1993.
Since then and up until the end of 2023, about 50,000 dunams in the West Bank have been declared as Israeli “state land.”