Israeli minister calls for annexation of #west_bank #Settlements
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A general view taken on April 8, 2014 shows Israeli construction cranes and excavators at a building site of new housing units in the Jewish settlement of Neve Yaakov, in the northern area of east Jerusalem. (Photo: AFP - Ahmad Gharabli)
A senior Israeli minister has urged Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to annex a swathe of illegal settlements in the occupied West Bank, saying peace talks with the Palestinians were dead. The comments by Economy Minister Naftali Bennett came as Israeli authorities announced on Thursday that they would confiscate about some 250 acres of private Palestinian land south of Bethlehem in the West Bank. read (...)