Alwaght-A bill that would extend all Israeli regime's new laws onto the Zionist settlements in the occupied West Bank has been approved by the Israeli regime's ministerial committee, Russia today reported.
According to the new bill, the occupier regime laws would be applied through a military decree thus implying this regime's sovereignty on those territories in the West Bank.
Six ministers voted in favor of the proposal while four voted against it. Former chief negotiator with the Palestinians Tzipi Livni announced she would appeal the decision.
“The real goal of this bill is to normalize an abnormal situation – an expanding occupation masquerading as civil rights,” she said.
“This stands in complete contradiction with international law which Israel has accepted,” Zehava Gal-On, leader of leftist party Meretz, stated. “Whoever chooses to live in the settlements knows this is occupied territory. Now they want to conduct a de facto annexation while only extending the law to settlers, which creates a policy of apartheid.”
The sponsors of the so-called Norms Law meanwhile said such arrangements would not change the status of the West Bank or contravene international law.
The new law is widely seen as a step toward annexation amid widening occupiers activity considered illegal by most countries. Latest report suggests Israeli regime is planning to claim some 3,176 acres of Palestinian land around a West Bank village near central Baitul Muqadas “for military purposes,” according to residents of the village who were handed orders signed by the head of IDF Central Command.
The territories in the West bank were taken under Israeli regime military control following the Six-day war in 1967. Since then Zionist regime has built numerous settlements which are now under military regulation with different laws being applied arbitrarily to certain areas.
With some 2.4 million Palestinians living there, the Palestinian occupied territories of the West Bank along with the Gaza Strip have been seeking full Palestinian statehood and independence from Occupied Lands for decades now. But despite international criticism, the kid killer regime encourages the Zionist population in the West Bank to build new settlements.
