Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said yesterday his government is looking to obtain retroactive approval for the illegal settlement outpost of Ofra built on private Palestinian land near Ramallah.
He said:
“We have built and built and built. With great wisdom and determination … If that can be done, wonderful. If not, we’ll see.”
Israel’s Netanyahu seeks retroactive approval for illegal settlement – https://t.co/ow9oonE4MK #Palestine pic.twitter.com/EFUW0WPurV
— al whit (@soitiz) December 11, 2018
The illegal settlement of Ofra was established in 1975 on an abandoned Jordanian military base, with the approval of Yitzhak Rabin and Shimon Peres, who were prime minister and defense minister, respectively, at the time.
Members of Netanyahu’s Likud party as well as coalition member, Jewish Home, called on Netanyahu to legalize the illegal settlement outpost in response to a shooting which injured seven illegal settlers on Sunday night.
What you call the town of Ofra is an illegal settlement on stolen Palestinian land
— Heisenberg's Dog (@GregPaulHayes) December 10, 2018
A statement by the Jewish Home party said:
“The Jewish Home Party calls on the prime minister to immediately regulate the settlement of Ofra and grant it the status of a regular town in our country.”
All settlements are deemed illegal under international law which prohibits the transfer of civilian populations into occupied territory.
(MEMO, PC, Social Media)
