Israel’s Defense Ministry has confirmed that the country is on the verge of seizing large swathes of fertile land in the occupied West Bank, a move that will likely exacerbate its already cooling relationship with Western allies, Reuters reports.COGAT, a unit of Israel’s Defense Ministry, told Reuters in an email that “the lands are in the final stages of being declared state lands” as the government had already made the decision to appropriate them.
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