RAMALLAH, Palestinian Territories: New Israeli measures for the occupied West Bank, announced over the weekend, are expected to accelerate the territory’s annexation, ease land purchases by settlers and push Palestinians into increasingly isolated enclaves.
The full text of the latest decisions remains classified, but some details were disclosed in a statement. While it was unclear when the new rules would take effect, they do not require further approval.
Below are key changes that are expected to reshape the West Bank.
- Easy land purchases by settlers? -
Far-right Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich, a member of the security cabinet who himself lives in a settlement, said the moves would make it easy for settlers to purchase land in the West Bank, occupied by Israel since 1967.
