Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu won the leadership race of his Likud Party over his ultra-nationalist rival, hours after his government approved new incentives to entice people to move to West Bank settlements.

ISRAELI Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said yesterday that Israel will continue to build homes in existing West Bank settlements, defying US calls to halt settlement growth.

ISRAEL’S Cabinet yesterday adopted a report on the state’s complicity in setting up 105 illegal West Bank settlement outposts and decided to dismantle 24 of them.