Israel’s far-right Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich said on June 16 he has stripped Palestinians of administrative authority over one of the West Bank’s most sensitive religious sites, while settlers set fire to a mosque in a nearby village in an escalating pattern of unrest across the occupied territory.

Amid intensifying military raids in the city, revoking the 1997 protocol gives the Israeli state full construction control over Hebron's key sites, such as Ibrahimi Mosque

JERUSALEM, June 16 (Reuters) - Israel has seized planning and construction powers at a Jewish and Muslim shrine in the occupied West Bank from the Palestinian Authority, scrapping…