The Israeli Defense Minister believes that “it is not appropriate” for the Jewish state to apply such a “severe measure” while “unjustified international sanctions are being taken against settlers.”
Israel Katz, the Israeli Minister of Defense, announced this Friday, November 22 that the so-called administrative detention regime, equivalent to almost unlimited police custody, would no longer apply to Israeli settlers in the West Bank.
While “the Jewish settlements in Judea and Samaria (the name given by Israel to the West Bank, Palestinian territory it has occupied since 1967]are subject to serious Palestinian terrorist threats (…) and unjustified international sanctions are taken against settlers [ou des entreprises oeuvrant à la colonisation]”It is not appropriate for the State of Israel to apply such a harsh measure against settlers,” Israel Katz said in a statement, referring to recent American sanctions in particular.
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