US EditionKnesset Passes West Bank Annexation Bill in Preliminary Vote
The bill to annex most West Bank settlements passed narrowly 25-24 despite Netanyahu's opposition and amid US Vice President JD Vance's visit to support Gaza ceasefire efforts.
- On October 22, 2025, the Knesset gave preliminary approval to a bill to apply Israeli sovereignty over the West Bank despite Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu urging withdrawal during U.S. Vice President JD Vance's visit.
- Avi Maoz, the Noam MK, introduced a bill to apply Israeli law to settlement areas in Judea and Samaria, leaving six Palestinian enclaves and aiming to dismantle the Palestinian Authority.
- A separate bill on Maale Adumim cleared a preliminary vote with 32 to nine, while most Likud party lawmakers abstained and Yuli Edelstein, Likud MK, cast the decisive vote.
- Netanyahu's Likud party condemned the vote as a `stunt by the opposition aimed at harming our relations with the United States,' and the bill must clear three more readings plus the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defence Committee.
- Annexation would, experts say, foreclose the two-state option as more than 700,000 Israelis live in settlements across the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem.
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Israel's parliament has voted to give preliminary approval to a bill to impose Israeli sovereignty on the occupied West Bank. Despite opposition from Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his Likud party, lawmakers in the 120-seat Knesset voted 25-24 on Tuesday to move the bill forward. It will now go to the Knesset's Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee for further consideration. The vote, which came a month after US President Donald T…
Israeli MPs give initial nod to annex West Bank
Israeli lawmakers on Wednesday voted in favour of advancing two bills on annexing the occupied West Bank, an ambition openly promoted by far-right ministers in recent months. The vote came with US Vice President JD Vance visiting Israel to shore up a Gaza ceasefire brokered by President Donald Trump, who has made clear he would not back annexation of the West Bank. "I will not allow Israel to annex the West Bank," Trump told reporters at the Whi…
The Israeli Parliament (the Knesset) approved this Wednesday, in a preliminary reading with 25 votes in favour and 24 against, a proposal to annex the occupied Palestinian territory of the West Bank. “The bill to apply sovereignty to the territories of Judea and Samaria was approved in preliminary reading by a 25-in-a-and-a-24-in-pro majority,” detailed the Knesset in its channel in X. This first step precedes three other votes that will be nece…
The initiative was presented by a far-right legislator and won the support of 25 deputies, despite opposition from Prime Minister Netanyahu.
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