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Israel minister promises annexation in West Bank in 2025

An Israeli protestor throws stones as military personnel try to calm clashes that erupted in the town of Huwara in the West Bank on October 13, 2022. [AFP]

Israel's Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich pledged on Monday to annex Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank in 2025, calling Donald Trump's return to power in the United States "an important opportunity".

"The year 2025 will be, with God's help, the year of sovereignty in Judea and Samaria," the far-right minister said, using the biblical name for the West Bank.

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