JERUSALEM: Israel has given final approval for 764 housing units to be built in three settlements in the occupied West Bank, Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich said on Wednesday. The ultra-nationalist Smotrich, who opposes the creation of a Palestinian state, said that since the beginning of his term in late 2022, some 51,370 housing units have been approved by the government’s Higher Planning Council in the West Bank, territory Palestinians seek for a future state.

JERUSALEM: Israel has given final approval for 764 housing units to be built in three settlements in the occupied West Bank, Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich said on Wednesday.…

Israeli authorities have signed off on plans for 764 new illegal settlement units across the central West Bank, local media reported Wednesday, expanding...