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centerBREAKINGIsraeli cabinet 'secretly approves record number' of new West Bank settlements

Submitted by Fleur Hargreaves on Thu, 04/09/2026 - 11:37 Report on i24NEWS reveals new settlements were approved during war on Iran but kept classified The Israeli settlement Neve Yaakov in the northern area of East Jerusalem in the occupied West Bank, on 15 September 2025 (Ahmad Gharabli/AFP) Off Israel’s cabinet has secretly approved a record number of new settlements in the occupied West Bank, according to the Israeli news channel i24NEWS. Amid the war on Iran, the government ratified 34 new
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