Twenty-seven foreign ministers of the European Union approved on Monday new sanctions against Israeli settlers due to increasing violence against Palestinians in the occupied West Bank.

Opposing such a decision on sanctions, Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich said he presented Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu with a plan to occupy strategic land in the occupied West Bank.

Prime Minister a plan to occupy strategic areas in the West Bank in Areas A, B and C,” he said on American social media company X.

“No one will force the state of Israel to pursue a policy of national suicide,” he asserted.

The Israeli minister called for “strengthening the settlements” and “deepening control” over what he called “the land of Israel.”

“The West Bank is Israel’s security belt and it is time to make it clear to the world that anyone who tries to weaken our control over it will face dire consequences,” he said.

The UN has recorded an increase in settler attacks since the start of the Gaza war in October 2023, writes the BBC.

Settlements – illegal under international law – have been built on land occupied by Israel in the West Bank and East Jerusalem, the area that the Palestinians claim for a future state.

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Source: prizrenpost