JAKARTA - The European Union (EU) condemned Israel's new measures to issue new policies that are tightening the Palestinian territories to expand illegal settlements in the West Bank.

"The European Union condemns the latest decision of the Israeli security cabinet to expand Israeli control in the West Bank. This step is another step in the wrong direction," European Union spokesman Anouar El Anouni told reporters, Monday, February 9, quoted by AFP.

The Israeli government on February 8 through Finance Minister (Menkeu) Bezalel Smotrich and Israeli Defense Minister (Menhan) Katz announced, had approved a new policy to deepen Israel's control over the West Bank.

The new policy includes allowing Jewish Israelis to buy Palestinian land in the West Bank, establishing a transfer of authority from the Palestinian Authority's municipal government to Israel over the right to build settlements in a number of areas, one of which is Hebron.


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