Israeli settler leader: Settlement expansion ‘irreversible’

‘A prominent Israeli settler leader has said the the number of Israelis living in the occupied West Bank has soared to about half a million people in the past five years.
The announcement by Yaakov Katz came after reports said the Israeli regime had agreed with the Trump administration to restrict construction in the West Bank.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, however, poured cold water on those hopes on Sunday, telling a cabinet session that he “would like to make it clear there is much in these reports that is not true.”
Israel’s Channel 2 reported over the weekend that Netanyahu had consented during his February visit to the US to limit settlement expansion in the West Bank in return for the construction of a new settlement for those removed recently from Amona.’
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