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RAMALLAH: Palestinians are able to confront the insurance policies and actions of the Israeli occupation forces with widespread shows of resistance and steadfastness, Prime Minister Mohammed Shtayyeh stated on Monday.

His feedback, firstly of a cupboard session on Monday in Ramallah, got here amid rising Palestinian alarm over a key position promised to far-right politician Itamar Ben-Gvir within the subsequent Israeli authorities. Ben-Gvir, a settler dwelling within the West Financial institution who has lengthy been a fierce opponent of Palestinian statehood, will reportedly have an expanded nationwide safety portfolio within the new administration, together with accountability for border police within the West Financial institution.

Extra typically, issues are rising by the day amongst Palestinians in regards to the probably threats posed by the acute right-wing Israeli coalition authorities being fashioned underneath the management of Likud chief Netanyahu, which is able to embrace members of radical spiritual events.

Distinguished extremist leaders equivalent to Ben-Gvir and Bezalel Smotrich have overtly acknowledged the insurance policies they intend to impose on Palestinians upon the formation of a authorities wherein they’re concerned.

As an indication of the rising menace, their supporters among the many settler inhabitants within the West Financial institution, and a few Israeli military troopers, reportedly have already begun to show extra aggressive habits towards Palestinian civilians.

Israeli sources stated one of many plans of the Netanyahu authorities can be to legalize 60 settler outposts within the West Financial institution, constructed by Hilltop Youth extremists on massive areas of confiscated Palestinian land. There are stated to be plans to allocate cash for the modernization and growth of the outposts, and to develop the powers of the Israeli Civil Administration to approve the allocation of land for settlement growth, in accordance with the sources. The brand new Israeli authorities will allocate about $52 million yearly for growth of infrastructure for the “new small settlements” and outposts, they stated.

On Monday, Shtayyeh stated that the intentions of the following Israeli authorities had began to turn into clear, together with its “aggressive and colonial applications and its plans to erase the 1967 borders and to strengthen colonial outposts and switch them into new colonies, and supply them with what they want, masking it legally, materially and politically.”

He stated the aggression continues regardless of “our realization that each one settlements are unlawful and illegitimate in accordance with worldwide regulation.”

Shtayyeh added that the following Israeli authorities will type settler militias, underneath the safety of the Israeli military, and had vowed to additional escalate an already tense scenario. Nevertheless, the threats and intimidation won’t frighten the Palestinians, he stated.

The administration of US President Joe Biden has acknowledged its opposition to settlement growth within the West Financial institution on the grounds that it threatens the two-state resolution that Washington helps.

The Palestinians concern persevering with settlement expansions will destroy their dream, for which they’ve fought for 55 years, of a contiguous Palestinian state on the Palestinian lands occupied by Israel in 1967, with East Jerusalem as its capital.

Khalil Al-Tafakji, director of the maps division and an knowledgeable on settlement affairs on the Arab Research Society in Jerusalem, informed Arab Information that Ben-Gvir is a settler from the Kiryat Arba settlement close to Hebron who ideologically considers the West Financial institution to be a part of Israel. He won’t settle for that there’s any state apart from Israel between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea and doesn’t imagine within the existence of a Palestinian state.

Israeli political and spiritual events on the left and proper and within the middle have differing opinions on many issues, Al-Tafakji stated, however all of them agree on the difficulty of settlements and opposition to the institution of a Palestinian state.

“The legalization of settlement outposts within the West Financial institution will make these outposts a nationwide precedence by way of allocating funds to them, paving roads linking them to neighboring settlements and foremost streets, exempting them from taxes, and reworking them sooner or later to be half of a big settlement near them,” he stated.

Al-Tafakji stated that what issues him most is that as a result of a big a part of the brand new authorities is prone to embrace excessive right-wing politicians equivalent to Ben-Gvir and Smotrich, who hail from settlement backgrounds, Netanyahu may seem extra average.

There are 145 settlements within the West Financial institution, wherein about 550,000 settlers dwell, 15 settlements in East Jerusalem which might be residence 230,000 settlers, and 170 unlawful outposts. All settlements within the West Financial institution are unlawful underneath worldwide regulation. A lot of the settlement outposts are within the Jordan Valley or the Hebron space within the southern West Financial institution, Al-Tafakji stated, and so they symbolize a transparent existential menace to the Palestinian dream of a state of their very own

Younes Arar, director of worldwide relations on the Settlement and Wall Resistance Fee, informed Arab Information that the rising menace of legalization of settlement outposts comes amid a rise within the tempo of demolitions of Palestinian houses within the West Financial institution in latest days. That is along with strikes to return settlers to outposts beforehand vacated by an Israeli political choice, together with Avitar, south of Nablus, and Tarslah, close to Jenin, he stated.

Benny Gantz, who was protection minister within the earlier coalition authorities, strongly criticized the plans to position Ben-Gvir in command of the Border Guard as a part of the coalition settlement with Netanyahu.

Gantz, who has accused Ben-Gvir of building a non-public militia, warned towards the politicization of the military. There’s a consensus among the many public on this situation, he informed Channel 12 information on Monday.

“I’m assured that the leaders and the Israeli military won’t acquiesce within the unlawful calls for within the military,” he stated.

Gantz additionally criticized a reported settlement to switch the oversight unit within the Israeli Civil Administration that handles civilian and humanitarian affairs of the Palestinians within the West Financial institution and Gaza Strip to Smotrich, chief of the Non secular Zionist Celebration.

In the meantime, Israel has introduced that it’s going to now be an offense punishable by three years in jail for Arab-Israelis or Israelis to take their automobiles to Palestinian garages within the West Financial institution for restore. Dozens of garages within the West Financial institution, particularly in cities and villages near the border with Israel, are fashionable with Jews and Israeli Arabs as a result of they’re comparatively low-cost.

The crackdown follows a latest incident wherein an Israeli Druze teenager, Tiran Fero, died on account of a automotive accident when he took his automotive to a storage in Jenin for restore.

After his dying, Palestinian gunmen took the physique, which threatened to trigger a significant safety disaster within the Jenin camp as tensions rose between the Druze group and Palestinians. The physique was subsequently handed over following intervention from officers on all sides of the Israeli-Palestinian battle.