France has condemned Israel’s plan to build 3,400 new homes in the occupied West Bank, calling the project a “serious violation of international law” that risks destroying any chance of a

Israel said Thursday it was moving forward with controversial plans to build thousands of new housing units in the illegally occupied West Bank, a development far-right Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich said would "permanently bury the idea of a Palestinian state.

The German government has said Israel should not implement a plan to build thousands of new housing units at a settlement in the occupied West Bank. The Foreign Ministry has said the move violates international law.