Israel approves measures to expand settlements in occupied West Bank
Israel’s Security Cabinet on Sunday approved new measures aimed at fundamentally reshaping the legal and civil framework in the occupied West Bank to bolster Israeli control and expand settlement activity, according to Israeli media.
The public broadcaster KAN said the decisions, pushed by Defense Minister Israel Katz and Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich, include repealing a Jordanian-era law that bars the sale of Palestinian land to Jews in the West Bank, unsealing land ownership records, and transferring authority over building permits in a settlement bloc in the city of Hebron from the Palestinian municipality to Israel’s Civil Administration.
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