The United Nations' Mideast envoy on Tuesday said a new Israeli law legalizing dozens of unlawful West Bank settler outposts crossed a "very thick red line," while Israeli rights groups said they would fight to overturn the measure in the Supreme Court. The law legalized dozens of outposts home built unlawfully on private Palestinian land in the occupied West Bank. According to the law, Palestinian landowners would be compensated either with money or alternative land, even if they did not agree to give up their property. It also marked the first time that the Israeli parliament has imposed Israeli law on Palestinian inhabitants of the West Bank. Nickolay Mladenov, the U.N.'s coordinator for the Middle East peace process, said the legislation "opens the floodgates to the potential annexation of the West Bank."

Source: ABC News February 07, 2017 05:23 UTC