According to Makan, Benny Gantz decided to temporarily freeze the legalization plan of 46 settlement outposts in different areas of the occupied West Bank, and that their legalization will be done after the elections and formation of a new Israeli government.  

During the discussion session about the temporary freezing plan, Gantz said he would be working on settling the legal situation of these outposts when the censorship over the unlicensed construction in occupied Palestine in 1948 is doubled.

His statement enraged Yossi Dagan, Head of the Regional Council, and as a result he moved his office to the settlers’ protest tent before the governmental building of the occupation demanding the legalization of the outposts and provision of infrastructural services.  

There are disputes among the Ministry of the Army and the Ministry of Settlement over the plan. Benjamin Netanyahu kept silent and did not announce his position.

The Israeli rightist Peace Now movement said that the settlement in the occupied lands doubled the past four years. There are 661,000 settlers, 132 big settlements and 124 random settlement outposts in the West Bank, including east Al-Quds (the time period when Trump took office and until last November).