China News Service, May 17-According to Agence France-Presse, Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu said that the new coalition government, scheduled to be sworn in on 17th, should exercise sovereignty over settlements in the West Bank.
According to reports, "These areas are where the Jewish nation was born and grew," Netanyahu said of Jewish settlements on the West Bank. He said that there is no doubt that "as part of the final peace agreement, our hundreds of thousands of Jewish brothers in the West Bank will remain there forever."
The problem of Jewish settlements is one of the main obstacles to the Palestinian-Israeli peace talks. Israel occupied East Jerusalem and the West Bank in the third war in the Middle East in 1967, and since then began to build Jewish settlements in these areas. Currently, there are nearly 3 million Palestinians and about 400,000 Israelis living in the West Bank.
The report said that Netanyahu's statement may cause commotion in the West Bank and increase regional tensions.
According to previous reports, on the evening of the 13th local time, Palestinian President Abbas said in a televised speech that if Israel annexed land in the West Bank, the Palestinians would reexamine their peace agreement with Israel and the agreement with the United States.