Critics say enabling Jews to buy more land there violates the Oslo Accords and international law and accelerates attempts to annex the land.

Israel's security cabinet has approved measures to strengthen control over the occupied West Bank and weaken the powers of the Palestinian Authority

Israel ’s security cabinet on Sunday approved the measures that aim to deepen Israeli control over the occupied West Bank and weaken the already limited powers of the Palestinian Authority.

A Palestinian woman sits as members of a Palestinian Bedouin community leave following Israeli settler violence, in Ein al-Auja near Jericho, in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, January 24, 2026. REUTERS/Mohamad Torokman/File Photo JERUSALEM,

The measures aim to increase Israeli control over the occupied West Bank in terms of property law, planning, licensing and enforcement.

JERUSALEM — Israel‘s security Cabinet on Sunday approved measures that aim to deepen Israeli control over the occupied West Bank and weaken the already limited powers of the Palestinian Authority. The office of far-right Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich in a statement announced the decisions that would make it easier for Jewish settlers to force Palestinians to give up land,

International outrage was growing on Monday at Israeli plans to tighten the country's grip over the occupied West Bank, with the United Nations chief saying he was "gravely concerned".More than