The Israeli Knesset finally ratified today, Wednesday, a law stipulating the withdrawal of citizenship and residency from Palestinian prisoners from inside the Green Line and occupied Jerusalem who are accused by Israel of carrying out operations against Israelis and whose families receive financial compensation from the Palestinian Authority.
This comes as the Israeli army arrested Palestinians in various parts of the West Bank and stormed several villages there.
And 94 deputies voted in favor of the nationality and residency withdrawal law, from the loyalists and the opposition, and 10 opposed it.
The law provides for the abolition of the legal status of prisoners of the Palestinian interior and Jerusalem and their deportation immediately after the end of their sentence to the areas of the Palestinian Authority.
In a tweet on Twitter after the vote on the bill, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said, "The response to terrorism is to hit it hard," as he put it.
The Palestinian Ministry of Foreign Affairs described the Knesset's decision as the worst form of racism, and said - in a statement - that the decision is a crime of ethnic cleansing and a dangerous escalation that drags the situation towards a mass explosion.
The Ministry affirmed that the law gives more credibility to the Palestinian approach to internationalize the Palestinian cause and to refer to United Nations institutions and international courts.
She added that the impunity of the occupation and the double international standards in dealing with international law encourage the Israeli government to persist in deepening its occupation colonialism, according to the expression of the statement.
Arrests and raids
On the ground, the Israeli army said that its forces arrested 20 Palestinians in various parts of the West Bank last night and at dawn today, Wednesday, and that its forces stormed several villages near Bethlehem, Jenin, and others in Ramallah and Nablus, and carried out extensive arrests there.
Palestinian sources said that those arrested were taken to camps for interrogation on charges of resisting the occupation.
On the other hand, the Jerusalem Municipality vehicles of the Israeli occupation authorities demolished 7 commercial establishments in Shuafat town in Jerusalem.
The Israeli occupation forces stormed the area at dawn and began demolishing the facilities that were built about 20 years ago, despite the owners paying fines several times.
Since the beginning of the year, the occupation authorities have demolished about 60 buildings and facilities in Jerusalem under the pretext of not having a permit.
The official in charge of the settlement file in the northern West Bank, Ghassan Douglas, stated that a group of settlers attacked the Al-Safafir area in the town of Orif, south of Nablus, and burned a vehicle belonging to a Palestinian in the town.
The village has been subjected to settler attacks on the property and the people for many years.
outposts
On the other hand, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was forced to issue an order to stop the bulldozing of fields seized by settlers in an outpost they established without a government decision north of Ramallah, after threats made by his extremist allies, National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir and Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich.
Ben Gvir and Smotrich threatened that the government coalition could not continue if the army continued to evacuate the settlers, and that this was contrary to the signed agreements, and they demanded that Netanyahu quickly transfer the powers of the border guards and the civilian arm of military rule to them according to the signed coalition agreements.
The two ministers promised - in tweets on Twitter - that Israeli legitimacy would be granted to all settlement outposts, not just the nine outposts approved by the mini-ministerial security team earlier this week, in addition to accelerating the ratification of plans to build about 10,000 new housing units within the framework of expanding settlements. the list.