International pressure on Israeli settlement expansion is intensifying. According to Al Jazeera, Amnesty International has characterized West Bank activities as state-sponsored ethnic cleansing, while several international allies have sanctioned Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich in response. Israel continues to fund settlement expansion in the occupied territory, underscoring the deepening dispute over territorial claims and Palestinian rights.

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