Palestine slams Israel ‘apartheid law’ for West Bank settlers

Israeli policemen take security measures as Israeli forces demolish a Palestinian house in Salfit, West Bank on January 10, 2023 [Nedal Eshtayah/Anadolu Agency]

Palestine, on Tuesday, denounced a Knesset bill to apply Israeli laws on settlers living in settlements in the Occupied West Bank, Anadolu News Agency reports. Early on Tuesday, the Knesset (Israel's parliament) approved the first reading for a bill to extend the "emergency regulations" for settlers living in settlement blocks in the Occupied Territory. The bill is set to be forwarded to the Knesset's Foreign Affairs and Defence Committee for second and third readings. In a statement, the Palestinian Foreign Ministry termed the bill as an "apartheid law" that legalises Israel's annexation of the West Bank settlements. "Such colonial and discriminatory law […] grants settlers the same rights of Israeli citizens inside Israel," the statement said. READ: Bill giving illegal […] Source

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