Illegal Israeli settlements, outposts in West Bank reach 592, says Palestinian body

The number of illegal Israeli settlements and outposts in the occupied West Bank has reached 592, with Israel controlling about 42% of the territory, a Palestinian government body said Saturday.

The figures were published by the Wall and Settlement Resistance Commission in a briefing on key indicators of Israeli settlement expansion and control of Palestinian land.

The commission said 780,000 Israeli were living in the West Bank, including  East Jerusalem, as of the end of July.

Of those, around 333,600 live in illegal settlements in Jerusalem, and 446,400 elsewhere in the West Bank.