Israel approved the construction of more than 28,000 new settlement units in the West Bank during 2025

Israel approved during 2025 the construction of more than 28,000 new settlement units in the occupied West Bank, and is discussing on Wednesday plans to establish more than a thousand additional units.

This came according to a report issued on Wednesday by the left-wing Israeli movement "Peace Now" specializing in monitoring settlements.

The movement said that "since the beginning of 2025, the Higher Planning Council affiliated with the Israeli Civil Administration approved 28,163 housing units, which is an unprecedented record for the number of units in one year".

It reported that the Council is discussing today "plans to build 1,033 housing units in various parts of the West Bank".

"The plans include building 126 units in the evacuated settlement of Sanur, but the Security Cabinet approved in May 2025 the re-establishment of it", according to the movement.

It noted that Sanur (in the West Bank) had been evacuated as part of the 2005 disengagement plan to withdraw the Israeli army and dismantle settlements in the Gaza Strip.

"The re-establishment of the settlement was made possible thanks to amendments introduced by the current government to the disengagement law, lifting the ban on Israeli presence in parts of northern West Bank", according to the movement.

It reported that this step "represents a return to settlement activity deep in the northern West Bank, in areas with high Palestinian population density, where there was no previous settlement presence".

The plans also include, according to the movement, building 398 settlement units in the "Yitzhar" settlement near Nablus (north) and 509 units in the "Esfer" settlement (south).

About 750,000 Israeli settlers live in hundreds of settlements in the occupied West Bank, including 250,000 in East Jerusalem, and they commit daily assaults against Palestinian citizens with the aim of forcibly displacing them.

Since the genocide war in Gaza began more than two years ago, Israel is paving the way to formally annex the West Bank through escalating crimes, including assaults on Palestinians, displacing them from their homes, confiscating their lands, and expanding settlements.

The Palestinian Authority has been demanding for decades that the international community pressure Israel to end settlements in the occupied territories, which the United Nations considers "illegal", and undermines the possibility of establishing a Palestinian state.

In 1948, Israel was established on lands occupied by armed Zionist gangs that committed massacres and displaced hundreds of thousands of Palestinians, then Tel Aviv occupied the rest of the Palestinian lands, and refuses to withdraw and establish a Palestinian state.