June 11, 2026: The Colonization and Wall Resistance Commission stated that the occupation government's move to approve the allocation of nearly one billion NIS to fund the establishment of dozens of new colonial outposts in the West Bank, including Jerusalem, represents a new step in the trajectory of accelerating the colonial project and converting the political decisions taken by the government over recent years into entrenched substantial facts on Palestinian land.
The Commission's head, Minister Mu’ayyad Sha'ban, clarified that the current Israeli government has, since its formation approximately three and a half years ago, approved the establishment of 103 new colonial outposts, comprising new colonies, colonial outposts in the process of being legalized and regularized, and colonial neighborhoods being separated and converted into independent colonies. The new funding targets approximately 61 of these colonial outposts whose construction has not yet been completed, by providing the infrastructure and essential services necessary to transform them from plans and government decisions into actually existing colonial communities.
He added that the danger of this decision lies not only in the size of the budget, but in the mechanisms the occupation government seeks to circumvent the planning and construction procedures in force even within the legal framework it has imposed on the West Bank. According to available information, the government intends to classify many of the planned structures as "temporary," or to use military orders and legal exemptions applicable to projects of "national importance," thereby allowing construction and infrastructure work to commence before the required planning procedures are completed.
Mr. Sha’ban also affirmed that this step comes within an integrated trajectory combining funding, planning, legal, and administrative measures. In the past week alone, the occupation's so-called “Civil Administration” issued four military gazette booklets aimed at defining and expanding the structural boundaries of a large number of colonies in the West Bank, encompassing a number of the new colonial outposts approved by the current government, paving the way for their expansion and connection to road networks, services, and infrastructure.
The Israeli government had also recently approved the allocation of an additional 152 million NIS to the Ministry of Housing to advance planning procedures for the new colonial outposts, reflecting the existence of a fully integrated government plan built on providing political, financial, planning, and legal cover for expanding the colonial project on an unprecedented scale.
Mr. Sha’ban emphasized that what is taking place cannot be viewed as merely routine colonial expansion, but rather represents an advanced phase of reshaping Palestinian geography and imposing new facts on the ground through the establishment of new colonial blocs and the reinforcement of connectivity between them, eventually leading to the deepening of the system of isolation and geographic fragmentation, undermining Palestinian development prospects, and accelerating steps to impose Israeli sovereignty over occupied Palestinian land.
He concluded by affirming that the occupation government has effectively transitioned from the phase of planning and approval to the phase of intensive implementation of the colonial project, exploiting international preoccupation with regional crises in an attempt to impose facts that will be difficult to reverse in the future.