Major West Bank annexation move not imminent, Israeli minister signals

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JERUSALEM: An Israeli minister played down on Tuesday (Jun 30) the likelihood of major moves to annex Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank ...

FILE PHOTO: Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu listens to Foreign Affairs and Defence committee chair Zeev Elkin during a committee meeting at parliament in Jerusalem June 2, 2014. REUTERS/Ronen ZvulunJERUSALEM: An Israeli minister played down on Tuesday the likelihood of major moves to annex Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank on Jul 1, the planned start date for Cabinet debate on the issue.

Zeev Elkin, a member of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's Likud party, said Israel still did not have the green light it seeks from Washington to begin extending its sovereignty to parts of the West Bank, territory Palestinians seek for a state.

Palestinian leaders, the United Nations, European powers and Arab countries have all denounced any annexation of land that Israeli forces captured in a 1967 war. "Whoever painted a picture of everything happening in one day on July 1, did so at their own risk," Elkin, minister of higher education, told Army Radio when asked what would happen on Wednesday."From tomorrow, the clock will start ticking."

 

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