{"id":541633,"date":"2026-07-14T21:33:15","date_gmt":"2026-07-14T21:33:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/541633\/"},"modified":"2026-07-14T21:33:15","modified_gmt":"2026-07-14T21:33:15","slug":"israel-signs-2-3b-deal-to-expand-west-bank-settlements-with-12000-new-homes-middle-east-monitor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/541633\/","title":{"rendered":"Israel signs $2.3B deal to expand West Bank settlements with 12,000 new homes \u2013 Middle East Monitor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Israel signed a 8.5 billion-shekel ($2.3 billion) framework agreement to expand illegal settlements in the occupied West Bank, including the construction of 12,000 new housing units and major infrastructure projects, according to Israeli media.<\/p>\n<p>Israel\u2019s Channel 14 described the agreement as a \u201cgiant\u201d step aimed at expanding settlements and \u201cchanging the face of the region.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The agreement was signed at an official ceremony attended by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich, Israel Land Authority Director General Yehuda Eliyahu and Yossi Dagan, head of the Shomron Regional Council, which oversees numerous Israeli settlements in the northern West Bank.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">READ:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20260714-israeli-forces-demolish-palestinian-home-near-hebron-in-occupied-west-bank\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Israeli forces demolish Palestinian home near Hebron in occupied West Bank<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The report said the agreement would \u201cgive significant momentum\u201d to the process of expanding settlements in the region and modernizing their infrastructure.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Israeli anti-settlement watchdog Peace Now, around 500,000 Israeli occupiers live in illegal settlements across the occupied West Bank, in addition to about 250,000 living in settlements in occupied East Jerusalem.<\/p>\n<p>The UN has repeatedly affirmed that Israeli settlements in occupied Palestinian territories are illegal under international law, warning that they undermine prospects for a two-state solution.\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b<\/p>\n<p>Palestinians insist on East Jerusalem as the capital of their future state, based on international resolutions that do not recognize Israel\u2019s 1967 occupation or its 1980 annexation of the city.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">READ:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20260707-israel-plans-40-new-settlement-outposts-along-jordan-border-to-address-eastern-security-vulnerability\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Israel plans 40 new settlement outposts along Jordan border to address eastern security vulnerability<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Israel signed a 8.5 billion-shekel ($2.3 billion) framework agreement to expand illegal settlements in the occupied West Bank,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":541634,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-541633","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/541633","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=541633"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/541633\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/541634"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=541633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=541633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=541633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}