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Smotrich: Israel to 'Encourage Migration' of Palestinians From West Bank and Gaza
Finance Minister Smotrich aims to nullify the Oslo Accords and promote Israeli sovereignty while encouraging Palestinian emigration from Gaza and the West Bank.
- On Tuesday, Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich outlined cancelling the Oslo Accords and advancing Israeli sovereignty while urging emigration from Gaza and Judea and Samaria, saying, `We will eliminate the idea of an Arab terror state.`
- Since last week, the Israeli government approved initiatives backed by far-right ministers to consolidate control over the West Bank, launching land registration and repealing a decades-old law barring Jews from direct land purchase.
- Around three million Palestinians live in the territory, and around 700,000 Israeli settlers live there, while the ICJ counts about 465,000 settlers in some 300 West Bank settlements and outposts.
- On Tuesday, the UN missions of 85 countries condemned unilateral Israeli measures expanding West Bank presence, while Antonio Guterres warned land registration risks dispossessing Palestinians, citing the ICJ 2024 ruling.
- Mr. Smotrich presented the Colonisation 2030 campaign at a vineyard near Ramallah and said his party will push to replace the Palestinian Authority with a proposed Israeli military administration after the Knesset election later this year.
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Jerusalem, Indefinite. The Israeli finance minister, the ultra-rightist Bezalel Smotrich, expressed his support for “encouraging the migration” of Palestinians from the occupied West Bank and the Gaza Strip, reported local media on Wednesday. “We will eliminate the idea of an Arab terrorist state,” Smotrich said in an event organized by his party, Religious Zionism, on Tuesday night. “We will formally and in practical terms cancel the damned Osl…
Israeli minister calls for Palestinian ‘emigration’ as Israel tightens West Bank control
A senior Israeli far-right minister vowed to encourage “emigration” from the Palestinian territories, despite mounting criticism of recent measures tightening Israel’s control over the occupied West Bank.
Smotrich pushes for displacement of West Bank, Gaza Palestinians
A senior Israeli far-right minister vowed to encourage "emigration" from the occupied Palestinian territories, despite mounting criticism of recent measures tightening Israel's control over the occupied West Bank. Since last week, Israel has approved a series of initiatives backed by far-right ministers to consolidate control over the West Bank, including in areas administered by the Palestinian Authority under the Oslo Accords, in place since t…
It is a matter of establishing Israel's "sovereignty" in these territories, argues the far right minister Bezalel Smotrich.
Israel's finance minister, the far-right Bezalel Smotrich, said this Tuesday that, for...
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