An Israeli channel said that Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich announced the confiscation of 24,000 dunams of occupied West Bank land and its annexation as "state land", with the aim of expanding a number of settlements there.

Channel 14 added that the Israeli authorities, led by Smotrich, announced the annexation and confiscation of 24,000 dunams (a dunam equals a thousand square meters) in the West Bank as state land, in a move described as one of the largest in decades.

The channel confirmed that "this decision includes nearly half of the lands that were declared as state lands since the Oslo Accords in 1993, as the declared area since then did not exceed 50 thousand dunams until last year."

The private channel indicated that "the Ma'ale Adumim settlement (east of Jerusalem) will be expanded by about 2,600 dunams to the south, to create settlement continuity with the Kedar settlement."

According to the channel, the settlements of Migdal Oz and Susya, in the southern West Bank, and Yafit in the Jordan Valley (east) will be expanded.