TEL AVIV –
The
Israeli Minister of Finance, Bezalel Smotrich, is rapidly advancing his
plan to expand the occupied West Bank settlements and legitimize their
colonization by enacting swift laws and decisions in favor of settlers, Al-Mamlaka TV reported.
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His latest
call was directed towards Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and
Defense Minister Yoav Gallant, urging them to:
"Create secure areas around the
settlements and prevent Arabs from entering, including for harvesting."
According to
Wafa news agency,
Smotrich's message is an explicit call for colonization aimed
at confiscating more Palestinian land for the benefit of settlements and
settler outposts, within the framework of West Bank annexation.
The occupied
West Bank, with approximately 12 million olive trees, has seen this year's
olive harvest yield losses exceeding 50 percent due to settler attacks and
actions by the Israeli army. Mahmoud Sufi, Director of the
West Bank Lands
Research Center, highlights that most villages in these areas were unable to
harvest their olives this year.
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