Israeli Knesset postponed late Monday the vote on the controversial “Regulation Bill” which seeks to legalize all settlements built on occupied Palestinian lands till next Monday.
After hours of deliberations the ruling over the controversial Regulation Bill has been postponed to next week Israeli media sources revealed.
The bill was scheduled to be approved during yesterday’s special parliamentary session; however the Israeli opposition parties submitted more than 200 reservations.
The opposition has demanded to postpone the vote for 38 days but the special committee refused the request. The vote is scheduled to take place next Monday.
Following Donald Trump’s inauguration Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu decided to send a bill to the Knesset “to allow us to regularize once and for all more than 4000 settlement units and dozens of settlement outposts (in the occupied West Bank) and prevent repeated attempts to damage them.”
Israeli settlement construction in occupied West Bank and Jerusalem is viewed by the international community as illegal and subject to the Geneva Conventions which forbid constructions on occupied territory.
