Former Title: Israeli Military Approves Settlers to Return to West Bank Settlements

The Israeli Defense Ministry said on the 22nd that the Israeli military would allow Jewish settlers to return to three settlements in the north of the West Bank of the Jordan River in Palestine. Israeli Defense Minister Garrant said the same day that the Israeli military had decided to put these settlements under supervision as official Jewish settlements and would no longer be bound by Israel's "disengagement law".

Israel occupied East Jerusalem and parts of the West Bank of the Jordan River in the Third Middle East War in 1967. Since then, it has begun to build Jewish settlements in these areas. The international community has generally opposed this illegal act. In 2005, Israel adopted the so-called "disengagement law" to evacuate Jewish settlers from some settlements in the northern West Bank of the Jordan River in Palestine, and set relevant areas as "military restricted areas". In March 2023, the Knesset of Israel abolished some provisions of the law, allowing settlers to return to these Jewish settlements when the Israeli military issued military approval.