@delitomatoes As I understand it there is was a legal process in Israel for settlements on "unused land" to become recognized by the Israeli government and eventually become part of Israeli state recognized territory, which is how the original Israeli territory was gradually expanded from the time of the handovery by the British. There are/were rules that these settlements are not supposed to displace existing Palistinian residences or farms, but if course these rules/laws are often ignored by ultraconservative Israeli settlers who view displacement of all non-Jews from Israel as their holy mission, leading to direct conflict and displacement with existing Plestinian occupants. It is this fact, and the fact that the Israeli state agreed to prevent futher settlement in the 1994 peace accords but subsequently has supported them, that has led much of the international community to condemn all Israeli settlements established after that date as illegal.
@delitomatoes As I understand it there is was a legal process in Israel for settlements on "unused land" to become recognized by the Israeli government and eventually become part of Israeli state recognized territory, which is how the original Israeli territory was gradually expanded from the time of the handovery by the British. There are/were rules that these settlements are not supposed to displace existing Palistinian residences or farms, but if course these rules/laws are often ignored by ultraconservative Israeli settlers who view displacement of all non-Jews from Israel as their holy mission, leading to direct conflict and displacement with existing Plestinian occupants. It is this fact, and the fact that the Israeli state agreed to prevent futher settlement in the 1994 peace accords but subsequently has supported them, that has led much of the international community to condemn all Israeli settlements established after that date as illegal.