Israel Planning to Build 4,500 New Illegal Settlement Units in West Bank: Report
According to al-Quds news, the Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, is expected to announce the decision in a cabinet session on Tuesday.
This is while Netanyahu had said the planned annexation of parts of the West Bank and the regime’s settlement building activities would be delayed following normalization deals with the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain.
Under the US-brokered deal signed between Israel and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) on August 13 to normalize relations, Israel has apparently agreed to “temporarily” suspend applying its own rule to further areas in the West Bank and the strategic Jordan Valley which Netanyahu had pledged to annex.
While Emirati officials have described the normalization deal as a successful means to stave off annexation and save the so-called two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Israeli leaders have lined up to reject the bluff of Abu Dhabi's crown prince and de facto ruler of the UAE, Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, that Israel's annexation plans were off the table.
