The Israeli security cabinet secretly approved the legalization of over 30 new settler outposts and farms in the occupied West Bank last month, according to three Israeli sources familiar with the decision. The Palestinians want a state in territories Israel captured in the 1967 war, including the West Bank, Gaza and East Jerusalem. The push to legalize the outposts has been carried out in defiance of international law, which considers all Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank illegal. Outposts are considered illegal under both Israeli and international law, but settlers have successfully established dozens of unauthorized outposts in recent years and eventually secured Israeli government approvals. In recent years, some of the settlers on those outposts have forced the expulsion and displacement of Palestinian communities following settler violence and harassment.

Source: CNN April 09, 2026 19:00 UTC