A/HRC/43/67 renew the mandate of the Temporary International Presence in Hebron as of 30 January 2019 (see A/74/357, para. 54). A. Settlement expansion: land designation, planning and tenders 7. Advancement of plans for settlement construction more than doubled; plans for some 13,600 housing units in the West Bank advanced or approved by the Israeli authorities, compared to 6,300 in the previous period. Of the units, 11,600 were located in Area C and 2,000 in East Jerusalem.3 8. Israeli authorities issued tenders for some 1,300 units in Area C settlements, as against 3,500 issued during the previous period. In East Jerusalem, tenders for some 600 units were issued, approximately the same number as in the previous reporting period.4 9. The official data available for November 2018 to September 2019indicate a decrease in the commencement of new settlement construction in Area C (1,504 units as against 2,014 during the previous period). 10. On 15 September 2019, the Israeli cabinet retroactively legalized a new settlement, Mevo’ot Yericho, an outpost located in the Jordan Valley, 650 metres from Area A of Jericho. The decision entailed the legalization of existing housing units and the construction of more.5 In the past two years, outpost construction has escalated drastically; settlers established 12 new outposts in current period under review,6 and 11 in the previous period (by comparison, in the 10 previous years, 1.7 outposts were established on average per year).7 The majority of the outposts established during the current period under review, as in previous years, were of a herding or farming nature. The establishment of outposts appear to be part of an official policy whereby the Israeli authorities encourage the takeover of land by settlers through agricultural projects (A/69/348, para. 28; A/HRC/40/42, paras. 31 and 39). 11. On 30 July 2019, the Israeli Security Cabinet discussed the advancement of 6,000 units in Israeli settlements.8 In a rare development, 715 housing units for Palestinians in Area C were also discussed. On 27 August 2019, the Prime Minister of Israel gave instructions to submit a plan for 300 housing units for the Dolev settlement after a bomb allegedly detonated by Palestinians killed a 17-year-old Israeli girl and injured her father and brother at a spring near the settlement four days earlier.9 12. In September 2019, settlers established a new outpost, Keidar East, east of Jerusalem. In protest, Palestinians set up a tent a dozen metres from the outpost. In a seemingly discriminatory enforcement of Israeli law, Israeli authorities demolished the tent two days later, but did not dismantle the outpost.10 Even when demolition orders targeting Palestinian and settler populations are comparable in percentages, Palestinians seem to be disproportionally affected, given the discrepancy in the amount of land allocated to Palestinian and settlement construction.11 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 Information provided by the Office of the United Nations Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process. Ibid. “Cabinet Approves Mevo’ot Yericho, the 6th New Official Settlement since Oslo”, Peacenow, 15 September 2019. Asael West, Tkoa E, Nofei Prat South B324, Susiya East, Mitzpe Hatora, Rimonim North, Maskiyor South, Nili West, Makhrour Outpost, Halamish East, Mitzpe Kramim East, Keidar East Jabal Muntar. Peace Now, data on file. https://unsco.unmissions.org/sites/default/files/security_council_briefing_-_27_august_2019_0.pdf. Tovah Lazaroff, Anna Ahronheim. “Netanyahu approves 300 new housing units in Dolev in response to attack”, Jerusalem Post, 27 August 2019. “While Israelis Went to the Polls, Settlers Built a New Outpost near Ma’ale Adumin”, Peace Now, 26 September 2019. “In the Spotlight. Under Threat: Demolition Orders in Area C of the West Bank”, September 2015, Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, pp. 12–13. 3