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Israel approves West Bank land registration, Palestinians slam ‘de-facto annexation’

Israel’s cabinet on Sunday approved a process to register land in the West Bank, a move far-right Finance Minister ​Bezalel Smotrich hailed as “continuing the revolution of settlement”. The Palestinian Authority condemned what it called “a ​de-facto annexation of occupied Palestinian territory” and several Arab countries criticised the measure as illegal under international law.

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