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The decision also includes the establishment of four communities along the eastern border with Jordan, as part of strengthening Israel's eastern backbone, national security and strategic grip on the area,
it said
The government is making clear — again and without restraint — that it prefers deepening the occupation and advancing de facto annexation over pursuing peace,
the group said
It constitutes a brazen challenge to international will and a grave violation of international law and United Nations resolutions,
said the Palestinian militant groupThis is a Zionist, security, and national response — and a clear decision on the future of the country,
he added
All the new communities are being established with a long-term strategic vision, aimed at reinforcing Israeli control of the territory, preventing the establishment of a Palestinian state, and securing development reserves for settlement in the coming decades,
the statement said
We have not taken a foreign land, but the heritage of our ancestors."
In his announcement, Smotrich offered a pre-emptive defense of the move, saying
The Israeli government no longer pretends otherwise: the annexation of the occupied territories and expansion of settlements is its central goal,
it said in a statement
This is the largest batch of illegal Israeli settlements to be approved in one decision,
reported Al Jazeera’s Nida Ibrahim from the occupied West BankIsraeli settlements are strangling Palestinian communities inside the West Bank,
said IbrahimThis decision violates all international resolutions, especially UN Security Council Resolution 2334,
he saidWe have made a historic decision for the development of settlements: 22 new communities in Judea and Samaria, renewing the settlement of the north of Samaria, and reinforcing the eastern axis of the State of Israel.”
The minister said on X
When people use the term ‘occupied’, I say: ‘Yes, Israel is occupying the land, but it’s the occupation of a land that God gave them 3,500 years ago. It is their land.’
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This extremist Israeli government is trying by all means to prevent the establishment of an independent Palestinian state,
he told Reuters, urging U.S. President Donald Trump's administration to intervene
The announcement of the building of 22 new settlements in the West Bank is part of the war led by Netanyahu against the Palestinian people,
Abu Zuhri told Reuters
It is with great sadness and pain that we learned this morning of the death of baby Ravid Chaim, son of Tzeela and Hananel Gez,
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in a statement
They gradually invade the community and expand. The goal is to terrorise people, to make them flee,
Ms Abramovitz said
There will never be a Palestinian state between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean. Never,
Weiss declaresIt's daylight robbery of land - sanctioned by Israeli authorities,
Michaeli continuesThis historic decision to establish 22 new settlements in Judea and Samaria strengthens our hold on the land, anchors our historical right to the Land of Israel and constitutes a crushing response to Palestinian terrorism that seeks to harm and weaken the settlement movement,
he said, using the Biblical name for the West Bank
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Through hard work and determined leadership, we have, thank God, succeeded in creating a strategic shift, returning Israel to a path of building, Zionism and vision. Settlement in the land of our forefathers is the protective wall of Israel, and today we took a giant step in strengthening it. The next step: sovereignty. We did not take a foreign land, but rather our ancestral homeland.”
Finance minister Bezalel Smotrich, head of the far-right Religious Zionist Party, said