Israeli bill to recognize West Bank outposts

An Israeli committee on Sunday approved a bill that if adopted would legalize outposts built without government permission in the West Bank, territory Palestinians demand for their future state.

• It still needs to pass several stages before it can be adopted. A first reading is expected in parliament on Wednesday.

“The state of Israel today began an historic process of regulating the settlements in Judea and Samaria,” Cabinet minister Naftali Bennett, head of the pro-settler Jewish Home party, that promoted the bill said, using the biblical names for the West Bank.

The bill was in part meant to stop the looming evacuation of the Amona outpost.

The Supreme Court has ruled it was built on private Palestinian land and must be demolished by Dec. 25.
 [alarabiya.net/AP]
14/11/16
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