Report: Netanyahu Cabinet Planning to ‘Legalize’ Dozens of Existing Settlements

Date: 28 January 2023 - 22:04

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WEST BANK (Dispatches) – The right-wing occupation cabinet of the Zionist regime led by Benjamin Netanyahu is reportedly planning to proceed with the “legitimization” of existing settlements and outposts in the occupied Palestinian territories.
In a report prepared by Hanan Greenwood, Israel Hayom stated: “The cabinet is poised to vote on a series of measures aimed at retroactively approving dozens of unauthorized outposts in Judea and Samaria (the West Bank) at the cost of several billions of shekels.”
According to the coalition agreement between the Likud party and the Otzma Yehudit party, headed by extremist minister Itamar Ben-Gvir, “The cabinet has pledged to start settling this settlement quickly.”
The newspaper revealed that “The goal is to settle the settlement through a plan that legitimizes dozens of settlements in the regions.”
Israel Hayom added that the agreement stipulates, “A ministerial forum headed … Netanyahu will have to be formed within 30 days of the cabinet being sworn in and that within sixty days, the cabinet will have to pass a resolution to have those communities get official recognition, launching an 18-month process that would culminate in them being connected to the electricity grid and water infrastructure, as well as other essential services and security.”
Meanwhile, Bethlehem Radio 2000 reported on Friday that the extremist right-wing cabinet led by Netanyahu is pushing for a gigantic settlement plan to pour over a million Zionist settlers into the occupied West Bank.
According to the Palestinian radio station, which reported Israeli Hayom, the Zionist rulers plan to relocate 100,000 settlers to Area C in the occupied West Bank in the coming two years.
The regime is also planning to relocate 500,000 settlers to the same area in the coming ten years.
Israel Hayom revealed that the number of settlers in the occupied West Bank would be more than a million if the number of settlers currently living there added to the total number of settlers in the occupied West Bank.
According to the Israeli newspaper, the plan “is the closest to annexation.”