Israel’s cabinet has approved a major policy shift that allows formal land registration in the occupied West Bank for the first time since 1967, a move Palestinians say amounts to de-facto annexation. The decision is expected to make it easier for Israeli settlers to purchase land and further expand Israel’s administrative control over disputed territory. […]
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Israeli cabinet approves West Bank land registration
Israel’s cabinet on Sunday approved further measures to tighten Israel’s control over the occupied West Bank and make it easier for settlers to buy land, in a move Palestinians called “a de-facto annexation”. The West Bank is among the territories that the Palestinians seek for a future independent state. Much of it is under Israeli […]