Settler group says Netanyahu committed to starting annexation within months

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has told the head of a umbrella settler group Yesha Council that his government will start annexing West Bank settlements within months, the group says.

According to the statement, Netanyahu updated David Elhayani on coalition “understandings” and “committed” to start the annexation process within the next few months.

(From L-R) Gush Etzion Regional Council chairman Shlomo Ne’eman, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Yesha Council chairman David Elhayani in front of a Gush Etzion lookout point in the West Bank on November 19, 2019. (Haim Zach/GPO)

David Elhayani says in a statement that he thanked Netanyahu “for not letting the opportunity of extending sovereignty pass by.”