Israel’s security cabinet has approved a budget of $434m (1.3b shekels) to build 34 new illegal settlements in the occupied West Bank.

Israel signed an 8.5 billion-shekel ($2.3 billion) framework agreement to expand illegal settlements in the occupied West Bank, including the construction of 12,000 new housing…

The new plan will bring the total number of West Bank settlements established under the current government to 103.