Overview
- A coalition of 85 UN member states, joined by the EU and the Arab League, issued a joint declaration condemning Israel’s new West Bank land measures and calling for their immediate annulment, warning of demographic alteration.
- Israel’s security cabinet approved launching a land-registration process in the West Bank that would create Israeli property titles for the first time since 1967.
- The government allocated 244 million shekels for 2026–2030 and created 35 state positions to run the program, which officials describe as an administrative effort to organize records and resolve disputes.
- The plan focuses on Area C and aims to register roughly 29,000 hectares out of about 330,000 hectares, with notices indicating each parcel could take at least 18 months and full registration could stretch decades.
- The move follows steps easing settler land purchases, including repeal of a decades-old ban, while the UN, EU, Jordan, the Palestinian Authority, Egypt and Qatar denounce the measures as de facto annexation and Israeli NGOs warn of Palestinian dispossession.