Qassam Muaddi

Israel is approving the construction of new West Bank settlements at an unprecedented rate because it knows its window of impunity is closing — especially if Iran emerges intact from the war and the Republicans lose the U.S. midterms.

The Israeli cabinet approved the construction of 34 new West Bank settlements last week, bringing the total number approved by the ruling coalition led by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu up to 103. The cabinet decision is the largest batch of new settlements approved in decades, breaking the record set by a previous landmark decision in June 2025, which approved 22 new settlements.

Municipal elections were the last democratic outlet Palestinians had. This year, barely anyone is running, as two years of genocide and Israeli crackdown have hollowed out Palestinian political life.

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The emergency section of the Palestine Medical Complex in Ramallah seems too calm for the city's largest public hospital. Fewer than ten people sit in the waiting hall, the floor tiles still shining clean as an employee mops the floor every five minutes. Inside the emergency hall, four nurses stand behind the central counter, while behind closed curtains, patients lie on beds, some waiting to be transferred to a specialized section or to be seen by the ER nurses. Three of the beds are empty.

Israel is stoking a financial crisis in the West Bank by withholding funds from the PA. Among the sectors most affected is education, where teachers’ salaries have been cut, and classes have been shuttered. The impacts might last a generation.

Israel’s conditioning of its withdrawal from southern Lebanon on the disarmament of Hezbollah mirrors its strategy in Gaza: insist on terms that are impossible to implement to justify its constant state of war.

The Israeli settler movement and its allies in the government have submitted a plan to build 100 new outposts in Palestinian-controlled areas of the West Bank. The move would effectively eliminate the Oslo Accords.

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