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UN resolutions affirm the illegality of [[Israeli settlement|settlements in West Bank]], including [[East Jerusalem]], including [[United Nations Security Council Resolution 2334]] passed in December 2016.<ref>{{cite web|title=A/RES/68/15 Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 26 November 2013 – General Assembly |url=https://www.un.org/en/ga/search/view_doc.asp?symbol=A/RES/68/15 |publisher=The United Nations |access-date=29 November 2016 |date=January 30, 2014 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160913032000/http://www.un.org/en/ga/search/view_doc.asp?symbol=A%2FRES%2F68%2F15 |archive-date=13 September 2016 }}</ref> As of November 2023, there are at least 700,000 Israeli settlers in the Occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem across 150 settlements and 128 outposts.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2023-11-06 |title=Who are Israeli settlers, and why do they live on Palestinian lands? |url=https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/11/6/who-are-israeli-settlers-and-why-do-they-live-on-palestinian-lands |access-date=2024-02-27 |website=[[Al Jazeera Media Network|Al Jazeera]]}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=2023-03-28 |title=Human Rights Council Hears that 700,000 Israeli Settlers are Living Illegally in the Occupied West Bank – Meeting Summary (Excerpts) |url=https://www.un.org/unispal/document/human-rights-council-hears-that-700000-israeli-settlers-are-living-illegally-in-the-occupied-west-bank-meeting-summary-excerpts/ |access-date=2024-02-27 |website=[[United Nations]]}}</ref> More than three-quarters of the existing settlements have been constructed since the [[Oslo Accords]].<ref name=":9">{{Cite web |last=Graziano |first=Manlio |author-link=Manlio Graziano |date=2024-02-28 |title=The Two-State Solution Is a Recipe for Carnage |url=https://foreignpolicy.com/2024/02/05/israel-palestine-two-state-solution-partition-carnage-ethnic-cleansing/ |access-date=2024-02-27 |website=[[Foreign Policy]]}}</ref>

The establishment and expansion of the illegal settlements in the Occupied West Bank constitute a major challenge to the possibility of a two-state solution by "violating Palestinian sovereignty, threatening civil peace and security, jeopardizing water resources, and blocking agricultural development."<ref>{{Cite web |last=Owda |first=Reham |date=2023-03-07 |title=How Israeli Settlements Impede the Two-State Solution |url=https://carnegieendowment.org/sada/892152023/03/how-israeli-settlements-impede-the-two-state-solution?lang=en |access-date=2024-02-27 |website=[[Carnegie Endowment for International Peace]]}}</ref> This has progressively reduced [[Palestinian enclaves|Area A and B]] of the West Bank territory to a "shrinking archipelago of enclaves".<ref name=":9" /><ref>{{Cite web |last=Meakem |first=Allison |date=2024-02-28 |title=The Geopolitics of Palestine, Explained |url=https://foreignpolicy.com/2023/10/10/israel-palestine-conflict-gaza-hamas-war-geography-history/ |access-date=2024-02-27 |website=[[Foreign Policy]]}}</ref>

Proposals have been offered for over 50 post-evacuation compensation of settlers for abandoned property{{Clarify|reason=The preceding words do not make sense|date=April 2024}}, as occurred following Israel's [[Israel's unilateral disengagement plan#Compensation and resettlement|withdrawal of settlements from Gaza]] in 2005 and from the [[Sinai Peninsula]] in 1982.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.csmonitor.com/1982/0108/010816.html|title=Israel OKs compensation for settlers leaving Sinai|date=January 8, 1982|first=Karla|last=Vallance|work=[[Christian Science Monitor]]}}</ref> Some settlers in those previous withdrawals were forcibly removed by the IDF.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Sharon |first=Jeremy |date=2022-07-21 |title=Police remove all settler activists from illegal outpost, ending massive campaign |url=https://www.timesofisrael.com/forces-dismantle-several-settler-encampments-hundreds-remain-at-new-illegal-outpost/ |work=[[The Times of Israel]]}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |date=2023-01-20 |title=Israeli forces remove West Bank settler outpost, riling rightists in government |url=https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/israeli-forces-remove-west-bank-settler-outpost-riling-rightists-government-2023-01-20/ |access-date=2024-02-27 |work=[[Reuters]]}}</ref>