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Smotrich: Israel to 'Encourage Migration' of Palestinians From West Bank and Gaza
Smotrich aims to replace the Palestinian Authority with Israeli military rule and expand settlements, while 85 UN member states denounce these moves as illegal annexation.
- 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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Israeli extreme right-wing minister Bezalel Smotrich called for "encouraging the emigration" of Palestinians from the occupied West Bank and Gaza.
Eighty-five UN Member States condemned on Tuesday 17 February the adoption by Israel of new measures aimed at expanding its illegal presence in the occupied West Bank.
On Wednesday, Chile joined the joint declaration of more than 100 States and international organizations condemning Israel’s unilateral measures to expand its presence in the occupied West Bank. “This decision violates international law and affects regional stability,” said the Ministry of Foreign Affairs through X. Meanwhile, the document signed by hundreds of States and organizations maintains that “we strongly condemn Israel’s unilateral deci…
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.
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