The Palestinian Presidency’s office condemned the plan as a “flagrant violation of international law”. Published On 10 Apr 202610 Apr 2026The Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) has condemned Israel’s approval of 34 new settlements in the occupied West Bank, saying the decision violates international law.Israeli rights group Peace Now reported late on Thursday that the government had taken the decision “secretly” in early April. The decision was also reported widely by Israeli media outlets.Recommended Stories list of 3 itemsend of listThe Palestinian Presidency’s office condemned the plan as a “flagrant violation of international law”. There was no immediate comment from the Israeli government.The OIC’s general secretariat said in a statement on Friday that Israel “the occupying power, has no sovereignty over the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Al-Quds (Jerusalem), and that all its measures aimed at changing the geographic and demographic reality there are null and void under international law”.The 34 settlements approved on Thursday come on top of 68 approved since Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s right-wing government came to power in 2022.The OIC general secretariat also “warned of the gravity of the escalation of settlement policies, land confiscation, settler terrorism and attempts to annex and impose so-called Israeli sovereignty on the occupied West Bank, stressing that this aims to undermine the two-state solution and violate the rights of the Palestinian people“.‘Serious violation of international law’Turkiye also criticised Israel’s approval of the new settlements, calling it a “serious violation of international law and UN resolutions”. Advertisement Israel’s Channel 24 reported that the security cabinet “secretly” approved the establishment of these new settlements during a recent session.“This is the largest number of settlements ever approved in a single cabinet session,” it added.News website Ynet reported that military chief Eyal Zamir warn …
