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The 63 signatories are a majority of the 120-member Knesset and include prominent opposition members. Plans advanced for 5,300 new West Bank settler homes.

"The Security Cabinet authorized one outpost for every country that unilaterally recognized Palestine as a state in the last month," Smotrich said.

Israeli settlers have accused the last few IDF central commanders of spending too much time cracking down on Jewish violence versus Palestinian violence.

Badeea Al-Dwaik, an employee at the Labor Ministry, said public sector workers were already receiving no more than 70-80% of their pay even before the Oct. 7 attacks.

In a New York Times report, the writer discusses the history of violence among Jewish residents of the West Bank against Palestinians and how it led to the emersion of their supporters in government.

"The European Union firmly condemns the announcement by Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich that over 800 hectares of land in the occupied Palestinian territory."

The five-month-old Gaza war has put a renewed focus on a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict as foreseen by the Oslo accords from the early 1990s.

In an interview with London-based Asharq Al-Awsat, PA President Mahmoud Abbas criticized Netanyahu and Biden, claiming "no real pressure" was exerted on Israel

In the exercise, which took place in the presence of Yehuda Fox, the commander of the Central Command, fighters portrayed settlers kidnapping a Palestinian child.

Tawfic Abdel Jabbar's uncle told Reuters he died during clashes with the Israeli military that included stone-throwing by Palestinians.