Edition 4765: LawNewsIndex is a UK based daily legal news archive on Law, Lawyers, Law Firms, Justice, Jurisprudence, Legislation, Litigation, Legal Ethics & Human Rights since 2011.
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Today's Highlighted Video Story: Donald Trump’s re-election as US President this month is seen by many illegal Israeli settlers as an opportunity to press ahead with the annexation of the occupied West Bank.
Illegal Israeli settlements have doubled in the last five years and are now home to more than 500,000 settlers.
The settlements are viewed as illegal by the UN's top court and most other countries, but Israel plan had been force occupation for decades.
Israel's far-right Finance Minister, Bezalel Smotrich, publicly called for annexing the Israeli settlements in the West Bank following Trump’s election victory in November, but formal annexation has so far remained a dream for settlers.
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