ALT The locations of the 103 new settlements in the West Bank.

ALT The funding targets some 61 of the 103 settlements the cabinet has approved since December 2022. At each new “temporary site,” the Settlement Division would deliver fifteen residential caravans and two for public use; the Housing Ministry would lay the access roads, sewage, and water lines. The point of the exercise is speed. Most of these settlements have no approved planning scheme, and some have no “state land” available to plan on at all. So the government is preparing to route around its own planning rules, most likely by invoking military orders meant for projects of “national importance”. Build first, regularize later, and by the time any plan is reviewed the homes are already standing. Anyone following the history of the Zionist project will identify this, “facts on the ground”, is one of its defining characteristics.