UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said in a document sent to members of the Security Council: "In 2025, settlement expansion indicators reached their highest level since the United Nations began systematically monitoring these developments in 2017." He added that "overall, 47,390 housing units have been presented, approved, or tenders have been opened for, compared to about 26,170 in 2024." Israeli settlement expansion in the West Bank reached a record level this year since the UN began monitoring it in 2017, according to a report by the organization's Secretary-General seen by AFP. "These figures represent a clear increase compared to previous years," he noted, pointing to an average of about 12,800 settlement units per year.
