Netany­ahu's appeal to right-wing voters comes just days before the closel­y-fought April 9 pollIsraeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu pledged Saturday to annex settlements in the occupied West Bank if he wins the upcoming general election. “I will apply (Israeli) sovereignty, but I don’t distinguish between settlement blocs and isolated settlements,” he said in an interview with Channel 12 television. The winding road to power in Israel: How elections work“I said there shouldn’t be the removal of even one settlement [from the occupied West Bank],” Netanyahu told Israel’s Channel 13 television. More than 400,000 Israelis live in West Bank settlements as part of Israel’s military occupation of the territory, where more than 2.5 million Palestinians live. A further 200,000 Israelis live in settlements in occupied east Jerusalem, over which Israel has already implemented full sovereignty.

Source: The Express Tribune April 07, 2019 05:37 UTC