Zionist Regime Plans Thousands of Illegal Settlement Homes
WEST BANK (Dispatches) – The Zionist regime has announced a plan for thousands of new illegal settlement homes in the occupied West Bank as Washington has voiced readiness to back de facto annexations by the Zionist regime there.
Zionist Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who is trying to clinch a deal to form a coalition cabinet, wants to start cabinet discussions on July 1 about declaring the Zionist regime’s so-called ‘sovereignty’ over the settlements and the strategically important Jordan Valley in the West Bank.
Fresh construction for the settlement of Efrat was approved on land that could accommodate "around 7,000 housing units,” war minister Naftali Bennett’s office said in a statement.
"The building momentum must not be stopped, even for a second,” tweeted Bennett, a religious-nationalist in Netanyahu’s current caretaker cabinet.
The settlements are deemed illegal by most world powers and condemned by the Palestinians, who see all the West Bank, which the Zionist regime captured in a 1967 war.
The United States has offered to recognize the regime’s ‘sovereignty’ in the West Bank as part of a proposal President Donald Trump unveiled in February, which also envisages talks on founding a Palestinian state in up to 70% of the territory.
Palestinians say the plan is biased against them, and have boycotted Washington’s mediation efforts since it recognized al-Quds as the Zionist regime’s ‘capital’ in late 2017.
"The Trump administration’s annexation plan endorses everything that the illegal Israeli colonial-settlement enterprise is about: A racist narrative, violations of international law and the perpetuation of the denial of Palestinian rights,” Palestinian official Saeb Erekat said.
Zionist Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who is trying to clinch a deal to form a coalition cabinet, wants to start cabinet discussions on July 1 about declaring the Zionist regime’s so-called ‘sovereignty’ over the settlements and the strategically important Jordan Valley in the West Bank.
Fresh construction for the settlement of Efrat was approved on land that could accommodate "around 7,000 housing units,” war minister Naftali Bennett’s office said in a statement.
"The building momentum must not be stopped, even for a second,” tweeted Bennett, a religious-nationalist in Netanyahu’s current caretaker cabinet.
The settlements are deemed illegal by most world powers and condemned by the Palestinians, who see all the West Bank, which the Zionist regime captured in a 1967 war.
The United States has offered to recognize the regime’s ‘sovereignty’ in the West Bank as part of a proposal President Donald Trump unveiled in February, which also envisages talks on founding a Palestinian state in up to 70% of the territory.
Palestinians say the plan is biased against them, and have boycotted Washington’s mediation efforts since it recognized al-Quds as the Zionist regime’s ‘capital’ in late 2017.
"The Trump administration’s annexation plan endorses everything that the illegal Israeli colonial-settlement enterprise is about: A racist narrative, violations of international law and the perpetuation of the denial of Palestinian rights,” Palestinian official Saeb Erekat said.