<h1>Israel's security cabinet approves measures to deepen West Bank control and ease settler land acquisition.</h1> The security cabinet authorised removal of prohibitions on sales of West Bank land to Israeli Jews, declassification of land registry records, revival of a committee for proactive land purchases, transfer of planning authority for sensitive sites to Israeli control, and expanded Israeli enforcement- including demolition- in Palestinian-administered areas on heritage or environmental grounds to facilitate settler acquisition and long-term land reserves for settlement expansion.