The Israeli government is scheduled to approve, on Sunday, a dramatic decision aimed at shortening and abbreviating the process of obtaining building permits in settlements in the West Bank and East Jerusalem, allowing the construction of more settlement units there.

This step, if approved, aims to reverse the situation that has existed for more than 25 years, through which construction will be strengthened without the approval of the political level, basically, at every stage of it.

And according to the Hebrew channel Reshet Kan, the approval of the political level will no longer be required to submit construction plans to the Supreme Council for Planning and Building, neither at the filing stage nor at the project verification stage.

Instead of the approval of the Israeli prime minister and his army minister, on each of the planned steps, which include 4 or more different approvals and years of discussions, the initial approval of the planning permit will be under the authority of the minister in the Ministry of Defense in Bezalel Smotrich, and this was within the coalition agreement when forming the government. Between the Likud and the religious Zionist party.

The channel says that since Smotrich entered the Ministry of the Army, as its second minister, more housing units have been approved than in any full year so far.

During this week, the construction of 4,570 settlement units will be approved, of which 1,332 units are in the final stages, amid expectations that thousands of additional units will be approved by the end of this year, especially since it was decided to convene the Supreme Planning Council once every 3 months with the aim of approving housing units.

Yesh Din, an Israeli human rights organization, said, "This decision is dramatic and destructive, and aims to allow settlement construction without recognition in the West Bank, and to make any opposition to this construction irrelevant. The decision, if accepted, will leave Smotrich's supporters the ability to promote expansion and settlement establishment without any Oversight, and we call on every party opposing the annexation of the West Bank to intervene immediately to thwart the decision that will allow full annexation in the near future.