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UN human rights office says Israeli plan for settlement near Jerusalem breaks international law

Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich previously approved plans for a settlement that would split east Jerusalem from the West ...

Israeli Settlement Expansion Plan Will ‘Bury’ Palestinian Statehood, Minister Vows

Bezalel Smotrich, the finance minister, said on Thursday that a plan to significantly expand a settlement near occupied East ...

Israeli settlement project going ahead, official says

Israel's far-right finance minister said Thursday that a contentious new settlement construction in the Israeli-occupied West Bank is going ahead -- a project that Palestinians and rights groups worry ...

Israeli Minister Strikes at Palestinian State With Move to Expand Key Settlement

Bezalel Smotrich said the approval of a construction plan “finally buries the idea” of statehood as countries including ...
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Israel's Smotrich to approve E1 settlement plan to 'bury Palestinian state'

Israeli finance minister directly links green-lighting 3,000 housing units in West Bank with killing two-state solution, days ...
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Smotrich: Netanyahu backs my West Bank policy, ‘is letting me create the revolution’

“He backs me up in everything concerning Judea and Samaria, and is letting me create the revolution,” Smotrich says in an ...