“This is a new settlement plan and an attempt to seize Hebron municipality properties and
everything belonging to it in the Old City.” He added.

“Smotrich is trying to use this measure for electioneering because he is approaching the Israeli elections, and he is trying to establish a municipal council for settlers within the city of Hebron.”

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Middle East Eye has revealed that prosecutors at the International Criminal Court in The Hague in April filed an arrest warrant application for Smotrich over alleged forced displacement as a crime against humanity and war crime, the transfer of Israel’s own population into occupied territory as a war crime, and persecution and apartheid as crimes against humanity.