US EditionIsraeli minister calls West Bank measures ‘de facto sovereignty,’ says no future Palestinian state
The Israeli government’s new rules ease land acquisition and expand settler authority, affecting over 700,000 Israelis living in the West Bank, officials said.
- On Sunday, Israel's Security Cabinet approved sweeping measures to entrench control in the occupied West Bank by expanding enforcement over land use and planning in Palestinian Authority areas.
- Energy Minister Eli Cohen said the moves `actually establish a fact on the ground that there will not be a Palestinian state,` and ministers revived a state land acquisition committee to reserve land for future settlements.
- The measures include repealing restrictions on land sales to Israeli settlers, publishing land registries, shifting control over Hebron's Ibrahimi Mosque, and extending enforcement into Areas A and B.
- Palestinian authorities requested an urgent Arab League meeting as a group of eight Arab and Muslim-majority countries issued a joint Monday statement rejecting the measures as illegal and warning they would "fuel violence and conflict."
- Critics call the moves an annexation of land home to 3.4 million Palestinians, risking regional and diplomatic fallout, as Netanyahu plans to meet Trump on Wednesday.
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Allies rebuke Israel over West Bank ‘capture’
• US, France, Switzerland oppose move, say it threatens ‘two-state solution’• Arab League to convene today as Tel Aviv starts demolishing Palestinian structures near Jenin WASHINGTON: A day after the eight-member Muslim bloc condemned illegal Israeli measures to annex the West Bank, several Western nations — including staunch ally the United States — have come out against Tel Aviv’s move to tighten its grip over the occupied Palestinian territor…
Benjamin Netanyahu's government has announced measures to significantly strengthen its control over areas administered by the Palestinian Authority.
Israeli government adopts measures increasing civil control of West Bank, drawing condemnation from Palestinians and regional Arab states
The Palestinian Authority, the governing body which exercises limited control over the territory, describing the move as an "unprecedented escalation."
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