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EU Observer (9 February 2026)

Andrew Rettman

Israel’s “de facto annexation” of the West Bank has been met with a relatively mild EU rebuke, indicating business as usual. 

A slew of new Israeli laws helping Jewish settlers to buy Palestinian land, approved by the Israeli security cabinet on Sunday (8 February), was “entrenching Israeli sovereignty on the ground, de facto”, said the pro-settler Yesha Council on Monday. 

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But for his part, an EU Commission spokesman said on Monday in Brussels only that the EU “condemned” the step, which went “in the wrong direction”. 

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