The Zionist entity on Friday published tenders to build 450 new settler homes in the occupied West Bank in a plan denounced by the Palestinians as a "war crime".

The Zionist entity on Friday published tenders to build 450 new settler homes in the occupied West Bank in a plan denounced by the Palestinians as a "war crime".

Daniel Seidemann, head of the Terrestrial Jerusalem group which also monitors settlement, said the latest plans were the first of their kind to be announced in several months and unlikely to be the last before the election.

"It's the opening of the settlement floodgates," he told AFP.

"This could hardly be an accident," he said. "It could not have taken place without Netanyahu's knowledge and consent."

Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) official Wassel Abu Yusef slammed the project.

"What the Israelis announced is part of a wider war... against the Palestinian people," Abu Yusef told AFP.

"This is a war crime which should push the settlements issue to the International Criminal Court."