Members of the Israeli parliament (Knesset) today annulled the law for the evacuation of four Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank since 2005, when the Israeli army withdrew and Jewish settlers were evacuated from the other Palestinian territory of the Gaza Strip.

It is the latest move by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's far-right government, which is dominated by Jewish settler leaders and their allies and promotes the expansion of Jewish settlements in the West Bank.

By overturning the law, Jewish settlers could return to abandoned areas of the West Bank and further deepen a crisis that has emerged since the new government announced a controversial judicial reform plan in January and amid the worst clashes between the two nations in recent years. years.

The international community, including Israel's closest ally, the United States, considers Jewish settlements illegal and opposes the construction of the occupied territories, which the Palestinians claim and intend to establish an independent state there.

Israel evacuated four Jewish settlements in the West Bank and unilaterally withdrew from Gaza under a 2005 law.