JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Israel’s far-right finance minister said on Monday that he hopes Israel will extend sovereignty into the occupied West Bank in 2025.
Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich, who also wields a defence ministry supervisory role for settlers as part of his coalition deal with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, said he hopes the incoming Trump administration in Washington will recognise an Israeli sovereignty push, according to a statement from Smotrich’s office.
Smotrich has for years called for Israeli sovereignty in the West Bank, land the Palestinians want for a future state.
(Reporting by Steven Scheer and Ari Rabinovitch; Editing by Peter Graff)
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