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November 12, 2024

Israel's Smotrich Lauds Trump's Victory, Orders Preparations to Illegally Annex West Bank
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Israel's far-right Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich told Israeli
lawmakers he has ordered work to begin so that Israel can annex the
occupied West Bank.

Bezalel Smotrich: "Year 2025 will be, with God's help, the year of
sovereignty in Judea and Samaria."

Smotrich, who is himself a resident of an illegal Israeli settlement in
Palestine's West Bank, said he hopes the incoming Trump administration
will back his plans, which violate international law.


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