Fury as Israel 'legalises' West Bank camps

Israel is in the final stages of legalising new West Bank settlements, a violation of its commitments to the United States and to an internationally backed peace plan.

The “road map” peace plan – which envisages the formation of a Palestinian state by 2005 in the West Bank and Gaza Strip – requires Israel to remove dozens of unauthorised West Bank outposts established since March 2001 and to freeze construction at existing settlements.