West Bank annexation. Cartoon for Dutch newspaper Trouw.

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„UN Secretary-General António Guterres has condemned Israel’s decision to resume land registration procedures in a large part of the occupied West Bank, his Spokesman said on Monday.“

https://news.un.org/en/story/2026/02/1166973

Guterres deplores Israel’s move to resume land registration in the West Bank

UN Secretary-General António Guterres has condemned Israel’s decision to resume land registration procedures in a large part of the occupied West Bank, his Spokesman said on Monday.

UN News

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»Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Saar said that attention was not on the U.N. session and that the focus of the international world would be on the Board of Peace meeting.

Saar also accused the council of being "infected with an anti-Israeli obsession" and insisted that no nation has a stronger right than its "historical and documented right to the land of the Bible."«

https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20260219/p2g/00m/0in/018000c

UN Security Council members blast Israel's West Bank plans on eve of Trump's Board of Peace meeting - The Mainichi

UNITED NATIONS (AP) -- Members of the United Nations Security Council called Wednesday for the Gaza ceasefire deal to become permanent and blasted Isr

The Mainichi

Israel’s far-right minister to push for ‘migration’ of Palestinians from West Bank, Gaza

“We will finally, formally, and in practical terms nullify the cursed Oslo Accords and embark on a path toward sovereignty, while encouraging emigration from both Gaza and Judea and Samaria. There is no other long-term solution,” said Smotrich, speaking at an event organised by his Religious Zionism Party late on Tuesday.

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»“Unfortunately, there is a tendency, and it is not only Trump’s, to expect that annexation will happen in a pompous ceremony with a ribbon-cutting and historical declarations,” Sfard said. “The truth is that annexation can happen bureaucratically, in windowless offices, in a supposedly boring manner.”«

https://wapo.st/4kI4h9m

As Israel takes steps to claim land in West Bank, U.S. stands by

Despite President Donald Trump’s opposition to annexation, Israel has taken steps to expand control over the West Bank that experts say may lead to seizure of territory.

The Washington Post
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2026/02/18/israel-west-bank-annexation-trump-land-registration/. "Israel has moved aggressively in recent days to deepen its control over the occupied #WestBank, unilaterally adopting policies that... represent a major shift toward #annexation & appear to defy President Donald #Trump, who has said he opposes annexation but has not publicly pushed back on the #Israeli measures." Saying you oppose annexation, but doing nothing to stop it, is supporting annexation, isn't it?
As Israel takes steps to claim land in West Bank, U.S. stands by

Despite President Donald Trump’s opposition to annexation, Israel has taken steps to expand control over the West Bank that experts say may lead to seizure of territory.

The Washington Post
Peace Now For the first time since 1967, Jerusalem is expanding into the West Bank

Israeli government approves resolution on de facto annexation of occupied West Bank

The Israeli government has approved a draft resolution to begin the process of settling and registering land in the occupied West Bank for the first time since 1967.

“We are continuing the settlement revolution to control all our lands,” said Israel’s far-right Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich.

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… any possibility of Palestinian #statehood and force Palestinians to accept permanently subordinate status or leave the West Bank.“

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„Israeli forces demolished several Palestinian structures across the occupied West Bank, including homes, citing a lack of permits. Video shows soldiers assaulting and detaining residents during the operations.“

https://www.aljazeera.com/video/newsfeed/2026/2/12/israeli-forces-demolish-palestinian-homes-in-occupied-west-bank-2

Israeli forces demolish Palestinian homes in occupied West Bank

Israeli forces demolished several Palestinian structures across the occupied West Bank, including homes.

Al Jazeera

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„Influential Israeli government ministers have long argued that the #WestBank must be folded into Israel’s political and administrative orbit. A 2017 manifesto penned by Smotrich called the “#DecisivePlan” laid out the road map: Israel should create irreversible facts on the ground that will foreclose …

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https://www.foreignaffairs.com/israel/israel-quietly-annexing-west-bank

Israel Is Quietly Annexing the West Bank

The blunder that will imperil any Mideast peace.

Foreign Affairs