How Israel’s West Bank strategy aims to bury Palestinian statehood

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/36588766

Published Sept. 22, 2025 06:07 AM EDT

Home to 2.7 million Palestinians, the Israeli-occupied West Bank has long been at the heart of plans for a future nation existing alongside Israel. The model is known as the two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and would also include Gaza. It is backed by most countries around the world.

But the construction of settlements for Israelis has reduced the land left for Palestinians, cutting their towns and cities off from each other.

Approval to build settlements has accelerated rapidly under the current Israeli government, which includes vehemently pro-settler parties that want to annex the West Bank to Israel.