23.03.2025, 20:06
Auf der Westbank werden mehr oder minder im relativen Windschatten der aktuellen Kriegslage Fakten geschaffen:
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Zitat:Security cabinet approves 13 West Bank ‘neighborhoods’ to become independent settlementshttps://www.timesofisrael.com/security-c...ttlements/
Former illegal outposts to get councils, eased funding; Smotrich: An important step on path of ‘de facto sovereignty’; Palestinian Authority, Hamas condemn move. [...]
Far-right Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich, who advanced the security cabinet’s decision in his additional role as a minister in the Defense Ministry, described the move on Sunday as an important step to the path of “de facto [Israeli] sovereignty” over the West Bank. The “neighborhoods” in question were built many years, and even decades, ago, as illegal settlement outposts, that is, without formal cabinet approval. [...] The decision to now formally split off the neighborhoods as new settlements allows the government to provide budgets for each of them individually, as opposed to designating money for it through its old mother settlements. They will also all get their own municipal councils. [...]
The new settlements were Alon, Haresha, Kerem Reim, Neriya, Migron, Shvut Rachel, Ovnat, Brosh Habika, Leshem, Nofei Nehemia, Tal Menashe, Ibei Hanahal and Gvaot. [...]
The Palestinian Authority foreign ministry on Sunday condemned the decision to recognize the new settlements as a show of “disregard for international legitimacy and its resolutions.” [...] The Hamas terror group also “strongly condemned” the move, as well as Smotrich’s remarks, describing them as proof that settlements were a “racist replacement project.”
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