OCCUPIED WEST BANK –
Presented to
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Wednesday, a plan aims to
reach a population of 1 million Jewish settlers in the Occupied West Bank. The
plan, developed by Samaria Regional Council head
Yossi Dagan, includes new
cities, industrial parks, a hospital, and an airport. The scheme, involving a
group of professionals who worked on it for a year, seeks to expand existing
settlements into cities, build new ones, and establish train lines connecting
the
West Bank to central and northern Israel. An airport and hospital are
proposed to accommodate the growing settler population, along with new
industrial zones for employment.
اضافة اعلان
The plan envisions the
expansion of settlements such as Itamar, Avnei Hefetz, Tzufim, and Sal'it. It
also includes the resettlement of evacuated 2005 disengagement plan settlements
in the northern
West Bank, including Homesh. Additionally, a planned city named
Ta'anakh is intended to accommodate 30,000 settlers, and Shamir is proposed for
the same region, with a capacity for 100,000 settlers, as reported by Ynet
News.
The authors believe
their plan could alleviate Israel's housing shortages by utilizing uninhabited
state land in Northern West Bank. Amid tensions with the U.S. regarding West
Bank settlements, the proposal comes as authority transitions from
Defense Minister Yoav Gallant to settlement advocate Bezalel Smotrich. Washington
criticized the reversal of the 2005 disengagement law and efforts to legalize
outposts like Eviatar, disputed for being built on privately owned Palestinian
land.
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