Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich has vowed Israel will continue to build illegal settlements in the occupied West Bank, in defiance of a pledge by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to freeze construction. Smotrich reportedly told lawmakers from his far-right Religious Zionism party in a Knesset meeting on Monday: "Construction [of settlements] in the West Bank will continue. The planning will continue." The vow came after Israel's decisions last week to approve the construction of some 10,000 units in the occupied West Bank and take steps to legalise nine outposts was met with international backlash. The US and several European governments condemned the move,
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