An Israeli Hebrew-language newspaper has revealed that settler organizations have completed what they describe as a “ready to execute” plan to establish roughly 100 strategic settlement points inside Area A of the occupied West Bank — the zone nominally under full Palestinian civil and security administration under the Oslo Accords.
According to the report, the initiative is being pushed by a settler forum whose stated goal is the annulment of the Oslo Accords altogether and the expansion of settlement activity across the entire West Bank, spanning both Area A and Area B. The plan reportedly follows the completion of a field survey identifying specific sites where new outposts would be built.
If implemented, the plan would mark one of the most aggressive settlement expansion efforts targeting Palestinian population centers to date, since Area A currently includes major cities such as Ramallah, Nablus, Bethlehem, and Jenin — areas that, under existing agreements, are meant to remain outside direct Israeli settlement activity. Palestinian officials and rights groups have repeatedly warned that incremental outpost construction, often initially unauthorized under Israeli law itself, tends to be retroactively legalized by the Israeli government over time, a pattern documented extensively across the West Bank over the past two decades.
The report did not specify a concrete timeline for implementation, but its emergence adds to a string of similar disclosures in recent months pointing to accelerated settlement activity under the current Israeli government.