Israel’s settlement policy in the occupied West Bank’s ‘Area C’ “has failed”, an Israeli study concluded last week. According to the study carried out by three researchers at Israel’s Reichman University, Israel has failed to make Israeli settlers’ life in ‘Area C’ “natural” and a part of the Israeli state. The study focused on Israeli control as opposed to Palestinian control in area ‘C’ along demographic, economic and social factors. Demographically, the study pointed out that the illegal Israeli settler population in ‘Area C’ first increased from 311.300 in 2010 to 491,548 in 2023 under the…