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Israeli 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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Israel has approved a series of decisions to "fundamentally change the legal and civil reality" in the West Bank, the Palestinian territory occupied by Israel since 1967. The purchase of land by settlers will be facilitated, and the Palestinian population could be pushed back into urban enclaves. The text is strongly criticized by several countries. - West Bank: what does the Israeli project envisage under the fire of criticism? (International).
Tension escalated following the adoption of a package of measures on 8 February, with which Israel unilaterally adjusted the rules for the registration and purchase of land in the West Bank.
Israeli Prime Minister Benyamin Netanyahu and US President Donald Trump to meet in Washington to discuss Israel's plan for the West Bank The President
The German Ministry of Foreign Affairs reacted to the latest announced measures as well as the Palestinian President. ...
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