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Israel’s West Bank annexation vote ‘colonial and racist’: Palestinian Foreign Ministry
The Palestinian Foreign Ministry has condemned the Israeli parliament’s vote on the nonbinding motion to impose sovereignty on the occupied West Bank, calling it “colonial and racist”.
The ministry said the Knesset’s decision highlights how futile it is to bet on the possibility that Israel would pull back from its plans to expand its occupation and implement a two-state solution.
It called for international sanctions to deter Israel from committing crimes against the Palestinian people.
Israeli parliamentary panel approves $275m for West Bank roads: Report
The Knesset Finance Committee has approved 918 million shekels (nearly $275m) in funding for roads and transport infrastructure in the occupied West Bank in a move hailed by far-right Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich, according to The Times of Israel.
“This is how you do facto sovereignty. This is how you bring in a million residents [to the West Bank]. This is how you take the idea of a Palestinian terrorist state off the table,” Smotrich said, according to the report.
The investment was part of a plan for “strengthening settlement, physically and politically connecting the region to the State of Israel, and making sovereignty a fait accompli on the ground”, he said.
The annexation of the occupied Palestinian territory has long been one of the main political goals of Smotrich, who lives in an illegal settlement himself.
In the past years, the ultranationalist minister has adopted a series of administrative measures to bring the West Bank under civilian rule while also dramatically expanding the presence of illegal settlements there.
A view of the damaged roads by bulldozers and construction equipment during the Israeli forces’ raid in Jenin, West Bank
Israel carries on demolition of Palestinian property in Jordan Valley
Videos on social media, verified by Al Jazeera’s Sanad agency, show Israeli bulldozers demolishing Palestinian property in the Ein el-Hilweh area, in the northern Jordan Valley.
The footage shows Israeli soldiers next to the machinery, pushing away residents from their homes.
Since the start of the war, there has been a sharp increase in the number of Palestinian homes being demolished. According to data collected by the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs in 2024 and 2025, more than 2,700 structures have been demolished, forcing at least 5,600 people out of their homes.
