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April 11, 2023

Israeli Ministers Lead March in Support of Illegal West Bank Settlements
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Israeli ultranationalist senior government officials joined thousands of
Israeli settlers Monday as they marched to an illegal outpost near
Nablus in the occupied West Bank, demanding Israel's government legalize
and repopulate the settlement. The march included Israel's National
Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir, as well as Israel's far-right finance
minister, Bezalel Smotrich, who promised to expand existing settlements
and to help create new ones across the West Bank, which he called "our
land." 

Bezalel Smotrich: "Evyatar will soon be legalized as promised by the
previous government. This place will be bustling with Jewish life,
upright, proud, lovers of the land and of the Torah."



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