Israel\u2019s Security Cabinet on Sunday approved sweeping measures aimed at reshaping the legal and civil framework governing the occupied West Bank, designed to bolster Israeli occupation and accelerate illegal Israeli settlements across the territory.<\/p>\n
Several countries, including T\u00fcrkiye, have condemned Israel\u2019s unlawful measures in the occupied West Bank<\/p>\n
Here is what the new Israeli measures look like: <\/p>\n
Opening sealed land ownership <\/p>\n
Public broadcaster KAN reported that the decisions, advanced by Defence Minister Israel Katz and Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich, include repealing a Jordanian-era law that barred the sale of Palestinian land to Jews in the occupied West Bank, opening sealed land ownership records and transferring authority over building permits in a settlement bloc in the city of Hebron from the Palestinian municipality to Israel\u2019s Civil Administration.<\/p>\n
The Israeli cabinet also scrapped the requirement for a special \u201ctransaction permit\u201d to complete land purchases and reduced the Civil Administration\u2019s professional oversight, limiting procedures largely to basic registration requirements. <\/p>\n
Israeli media claimed the shift as a legal change that would be difficult to reverse.<\/p>\n
The measures are expected to bring far-reaching changes to land registration and purchasing mechanisms in the occupied West Bank, Yedioth Ahronoth daily reported. <\/p>\n
Opening land records would publicly disclose owners\u2019 names and enable Israeli buyers to contact them directly, potentially easing land purchases and expanding settlements across the territory, the outlet added.<\/p>\n
Hebron <\/p>\n
Some of the decisions affect existing arrangements in Hebron, including transferring planning and construction authority at the Ibrahimi Mosque and surrounding areas, as well as other religious sites, from the Hebron municipality to planning bodies within Israel\u2019s Civil Administration. <\/p>\n
The move would run counter to arrangements established under the 1997 Hebron Protocol between Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organisation.<\/p>\n
KAN quoted Katz as saying the measures \u201creflect a clear policy to strengthen the Israeli presence in Judea and Samaria,\u201d using the Hebrew term commonly employed by Israeli officials to refer to the occupied West Bank. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Israel\u2019s Security Cabinet on Sunday approved sweeping measures aimed at reshaping the legal and civil framework governing the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":282196,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[85,46,43],"class_list":{"0":"post-282195","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-israel","8":"tag-il","9":"tag-israel","10":"tag-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282195","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=282195"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282195\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/282196"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=282195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=282195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=282195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}