Middle East
Israel Moves to Assert Ownership Rights in West Bank, Sideline Palestinian Authority
A Palestinian man walks past a fence decorated with Israeli flags installed by Jewish settlers, in the northern Israeli-occupied West Bank on Feb. 15.
Photographer: Jaafar Ashtiyeh/AFP/Getty Images
With Gaza stuck in post-war limbo, Israel is pursuing West Bank administrative measures meant to assert ownership over land and further sideline Palestinian authorities.
The Israeli edicts are cast by their far-right sponsors in Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government as the most sweeping since the West Bank was captured in the 1967 Six-Day War.