TEL AVIV, Tuesday, July 7, 2026 (WAFA) – A new report by Peace Now and Kerem Navot, titled Annus Mirabilis: Actions by the Israeli Government to Annex the West Bank, 2023–2025, concludes that the current Israeli government has advanced de facto annexation of the West Bank at an unprecedented pace.

The report documents the measures advanced by the Israeli government during this period and demonstrates how they form a single, systematic government policy aiming to deepen Israeli control over the West Bank and advance de facto annexation.

Instead of focusing on isolated developments such as settlement construction, outpost authorization, or state land declarations, the report, for the first time, consolidates all government actions and demonstrates that they constitute a single policy.

These include structural governance changes, the transfer of civilian powers, settlement expansion, new outpost establishment, expulsion of Palestinian communities, land takeovers, significant infrastructure investment, and changes to the land regime. The report demonstrates how these measures function together as part of a unified government policy.

Key findings of the report include:

• 185 new outposts established.
• 118 Palestinian shepherding communities and shepherding clusters expelled.
• 102 new settlements were established through the legalization of outposts or by granting existing neighborhoods independent settlement status.
• 40,064 housing units advanced in settlements.
• Farm outposts now effectively control more than 1.1 million dunams, including approximately 750,000 dunams seized since the current government took office.
• At least 223 kilometers of new roads opened across the West Bank.
• Settlers took control of at least 11,520 dunams through agricultural cultivation.
• 25,959 dunams declared as state land.

The report identifies four main mechanisms that have supported this policy:

1. Structural governance changes and the transfer of powers from the Civil Administration and the military chain of command to the political echelon;

2. Accelerated settlement expansion;

3. Land takeover through outposts, farm outposts, grazing, agricultural cultivation, and the expulsion of Palestinian communities;

4. A fundamental transformation of the land regime in the West Bank.

The report is based on extensive research, government documents, public budgetary data, aerial photographs, maps, and field testimonies, and includes findings updated through the first quarter of 2026.

According to Peace Now and Kerem Navot:

“The report demonstrates that annexation is a process already unfolding through hundreds of administrative, budgetary, and planning decisions. These measures viewed together, it becomes clear that within just three years, the Israeli government has fundamentally transformed the system of control in the West Bank in ways that could severely undermine the possibility of reaching any future political agreement.”

The full report includes 65 pages of research, maps, graphs, and aerial photographs, four in-depth chapters, and a comprehensive analysis of the Israeli government’s actions between 2023 and 2025 and their implications for the future of the West Bank.

K.T