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Is­rael said Thurs­day it would es­tab­lish 22 Jew­ish set­tle­ments in the oc­cu­pied West Bank, in­clud­ing the le­gal­iza­tion of out­posts al­ready built with­out gov­ern­ment au­tho­riza­tion.

Is­raeli strikes on the Gaza Strip mean­while killed at least 13 peo­ple overnight, lo­cal health of­fi­cials said.

Is­rael cap­tured the West Bank, along with Gaza and east Jerusalem, in the 1967 Mideast war and the Pales­tini­ans want all three ter­ri­to­ries for their fu­ture state. Most of the in­ter­na­tion­al com­mu­ni­ty views set­tle­ments as il­le­gal and an ob­sta­cle to re­solv­ing the decades-old con­flict.