Israel’s security cabinet has approved plans to formally recognize 19 settlement outposts in the occupied West Bank that are illegal — even under Israeli law. Israeli media reports the plan was promoted by far-right Cabinet member Bezalel Smotrich and coordinated in advance with the Trump administration. The Palestinian Colonization and Wall Resistance Commission condemned the move as “a dangerous escalation that exposes the true intentions of the occupation government to entrench a system of annexation, apartheid, and full Judaization of Palestinian land.”