From Knesset speaker calls for annexation of entirety of Hebron
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleKnesset speaker Yuli Edelstein vows to enact Israeli sovereignty over the entire divided West Bank city of Hebron.
“We will turn it to a full-blown city of Israel,” says Edelstein at a ceremony marking the 90-year anniversary of the 1929 Hebron massacre in which Arab rioters killed nearly 70 Jewish residents of the city.
“The time has come for the Jewish settlement in Hebron to grow to thousands of residents,” he adds.
The flashpoint city, where some 800 Jewish settlers live in close proximity to some 200,000 Palestinians residents, is the often the scene of violence between the two sides.
— Jacob Magid
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