Live Update
From the Liveblog of
Thursday, January 23, 2020
Settler leader urges PM to ‘immediately extend sovereignty over settlements’
Responding to reports the Trump peace plan includes the establishment of a Palestinian state, the head of the Binyamin Regional Council of settlements Yisrael Gantz says such a state “endangers the state of Israel and [the settler community] will fight it with all our might.”
He acknowledges that the administration is supportive of the Jewish state and claims it “recognizes the right and duty of extending sovereignty” over the West Bank.
He calls on Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu “to immediately bring before the government a motion extending sovereignty over all areas of settlement.”