The Israeli government of Benjamin Netanyahu has allocated 563 million dollars budget for the settlement activity in the next two years, a Hebrew paper reported.
Ha'aretz said on Friday that the budget was mainly earmarked for extending services to Israeli settlements, rehabilitating their infrastructure, and providing security for the settlers in addition to building new suburbs and roads leading to them.
The Israeli settlement activity in the West Bank and occupied Jerusalem had witnessed an upsurge lately in a bid to impose a de facto situation on the ground in any future settlement in the region.
