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Israel minister demands West Bank annexation if UN court rules against it

Far-right Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich, left, talks to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu [File: AFP]

Hardline Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich called on the prime minister to annex the occupied West Bank if the International Court of Justice (ICJ) rules Israeli settlements are illegal this week.

Smotrich told reporters, “no one will move the people of Israel from their land”, the Times of Israel quoted him as saying on Monday.

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