Three years of Israel’s mass dispossession of West Bank Palestinians
- Al-Awsaj, occupied West Bank – On September 23, weeks before Israel’s parliamentary elections, ministers and lawmakers gathered on an occupied West Bank hilltop to inaugurate a new settlement, Metzoke Eretz, illegal under international law.
- Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich used the ceremony to salute the settler outpost that made the eventual settlement possible.
- “The first pioneering settlers who were here on the farm… we will lift them up as our greatest joy,” Smotrich said.
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- Al-Awsaj, occupied West Bank – On September 23, weeks before Israel’s parliamentary elections, ministers and lawmakers gathered on an occupied West Bank hilltop to inaugurate a new settlement, Metzoke Eretz, illegal under international law.
- Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich used the ceremony to salute the settler outpost that made the eventual settlement possible.
- “The first pioneering settlers who were here on the farm… we will lift them up as our greatest joy,” Smotrich said.
Sources: Al Jazeera