Smotrich calls to annex West Bank

“Israeli” Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich called on Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to annex the West Bank if the International Court of Justice (ICJ) declare “Israeli” settlements illegal. 

“I hereby call on Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu: If the International Court of Justice in The Hague does decide that the settlement enterprise is illegal – respond to them with a historic decision of applying sovereignty to the territories of the homeland,” Smotrich said in a weekly meeting of the Religious Zionist Party.

“No one will move the people of Israel from their land,” he added. 

Smotrich called for the application of “de facto sovereignty and to thwart the establishment of a Palestinian state through massive construction, regulating settlements, building roads and other measures in the field.”

The ICJ is set to deliver a decision on the legal consequences of Israel’s “occupation of Palestinian territories” on July 19.