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Thu 07 Sep 2023 2:23 pm - Jerusalem Time

Israel intends to expand settlement roads in the West Bank

The Israeli occupation authorities continue to expand settlement roads in the West Bank, as part of their plan to increase the number of settlers in the West Bank to more than one million.


Today, Thursday, the Israeli "Ynet" website said that an agreement was concluded between the Israeli Minister of Transportation, Miri Regev, and the so-called head of the "Samaria Settlement Council," Yossi Dagan, to start work on doubling Road No. 505, which connects the settlements of "Ariel" and "Tapuah" in The depth of the occupied West Bank, at a cost of half a billion shekels, next summer, and that Street No. 5, which starts in the Tel Aviv area to reach the Fasayel junction in the main road in the Jordan Valley, is doubled at a cost of 1.5 billion shekels, as part of the Israeli plan to increase the number of settlers in the West Bank. Occupied to more than a million.


The plan includes doubling Road No. 5 and widening it, according to the site, which will turn it into the most important cross road, connecting the Mediterranean Sea and the Jordan River, in parallel with the legalization of dozens of random settlement outposts.


The website quoted Dagan as saying that "the road to a million in Samaria passes through construction, the preservation of national lands, and the most important is infrastructure and streets."

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Israel intends to expand settlement roads in the West Bank