New Likud MK Michal Shir proposed a bill, on her first day as a lawmaker in the Knesset, to annex Jewish settlements in the West Bank and Jordan Valley to Israel’s sovereignty.
She said she proposed the bill from a humanitarian aspect, noting that settlers suffer discrimination because they live or work outside the borders of Israel’s sovereignty.
“Israeli labor laws that ensure workers' rights do not apply to these settlers,” she said.
Settler leaders welcomed the idea and praised her.
The Sovereignty Movement, which was established to work on annexing all the West Bank to Israel, said Shir is a Knesset member who is “committed to the principles of the Greater Land of Israel and a model for young people who are willing to achieve the historic mission of the Zionist dream.”
It called on all right-wing Mks to vote in favor of this bill once it is put to debate.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had earlier announced that he would deal with this issue as a key goal in his new government’s agenda.
It is known that settlers have been practicing annexation on the ground through attacking Palestinians while they are working in their lands or sleeping in their homes and sabotaging their crops.
A series of such attacks were recorded on Wednesday. Settlers attacked the Palestinian Radi Abu Aysha’s family in Tel Rumeida neighborhood, Hebron, and destroyed the fence around the house.
These settlers have been enjoying Israeli soldiers’ protection and have also cut the iron pillars of the fence to prevent its reconstruction.
They detained Abu Aysha, 74, in the military checkpoint and only released him following the intervention of Palestinian Civil Affairs.
Scores of settlers stormed the town of Kafal Haris, north of Salfit, in the early hours on Wednesday. They carried out Talmudic rituals in the historic area of Makamat under heavy security protection from Israeli occupation forces.
Palestinians said groups of settlers stormed the town following the deployment of large occupation forces in its neighborhoods. They closed the town’s entrances and set up military checkpoints.
Occupation forces prevented residents from moving in the area under the pretext of securing the settlers who arrived on buses to perform Talmudic rituals in three religious shrines in the town.
