Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich:
“You see a halt in illegal Palestinian construction in Judea and Samaria.
For the first time, we reversed the trend: more demolitions than construction.
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That means the trend is moving backwards. We are demolishing four-, five-, and six-story buildings. This creates deterrence — nobody likes investing money in a losing fund.
We are now moving toward a land registration process in Judea and Samaria — something that was stopped after the Six-Day War.”
