The Israeli Knesset on Monday passed a law that would authorize the seizure of exclusive Palestinian land, a move critics cautioned would check the initial move toward extension of parts of the West Bank, while making ready for conceivable future indictment of Israel for atrocities.
In a late-night vote, Israeli MPs disregarded notices from opposition legislators and the UN and passed second and third readings of the Regularization Bill, which will legitimize retroactively somewhere in the range of 55 Jewish settler stations scattered around the involved West Bank, where the Palestinians need to assemble their future state.
Meanwhile, International law sees all settlements in the West Bank and East Jerusalem as illegal and, as of not long ago, such stations were unlawful under Israeli law and additionally they are based on private arrive on which Palestinians have claims.Based on the law's entry, Palestinian and Israeli critics portrayed it as a land get and said it would be seen as a stage toward addition of parts of the West Bank as it would add up to the use of Israeli power in settlement zones.
The UN's special co-ordinator for Middle East Peace Process, Nicky Mladenov on Monday warned that the law 'have far-reaching legal consequences for Israel and greatly diminish the prospects for Arab-Israeli peace", reported BBC.
Saeb Erekat, the secretary-general of the Palestine Liberation Organisation, said on Monday evening, after the law passed, that it would legalise "looting" and negate peace and the possibility of the two-state solution. The vote comes at an essential time for the Israeli-Palestinian conflicts, the math for which has changed since the inauguration of US President Donald Trump a month ago, who has guaranteed to be the most pro-Israeli US president ever and named supporters of the settlements as his Israel counselors.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at first contradicted the bill when it was tabled last year, cautioning that it could rupture Israeli and international law. He asked officials his own Likud party and the far-right Jewish Home party - who championed the bill, to hold off affirming it until after he had met Mr Trump in Washington on February 15.
However, on Monday, before leaving the UK, where he was on an official visit with Theresa May, the UK premier, Mr Netanyahu switched his position, saying that he had notified the Trump administration about the proposed bill.
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