"This month, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's security cabinet, in a closed-door meeting, adopted measures to make it easier for settlers to purchase land and to circumvent the Palestinian Authority in areas it has controlled since a 1995 agreement under the Oslo accords. The move was widely condemned in the Arab world and globally as a violation of international law and an undoing of decades-old regional security agreements."
"Since then, however, Netanyahu visited Trump at the White House last week, and on Sunday, after returning to Israel, his cabinet voted to restart a process of land registration, suspended since the late 1960s, in a part of the West Bank known as Area C. Experts say that move will probably result in Israel's taking permanent control of swaths of territory as it designates it "state land.""
Israel has moved to deepen control over the occupied West Bank by unilaterally adopting policies that analysts view as a major shift toward annexation. Netanyahu's security cabinet approved closed-door measures to ease settlers' purchase of land and to bypass the Palestinian Authority in areas governed since a 1995 Oslo agreement. The measures drew broad condemnation as violations of international law and as undoing long-standing regional security arrangements. After a brief White House restatement opposing annexation, Israel voted to resume land registration in Area C, a step experts say will enable designation of large tracts as state land and permanent control.
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