“There is no possible justification for the extreme measures the Israeli law enforcement system uses against East Jerusalem minors,” a new B’Tselem report details.

According to reports, on Sunday (29.10) the Ministerial committee for legislation is expected to discuss a bill proposed by MK Yoav Kish (Likud) calling to annex Ma’ale Adumim, Gush Etzion and Givat Ze’ev to Jerusalem, and excise the Palestinian neighborhoods of Kufr Aqab, Shuafat refugee camp and Anata from Jerusalem.

A municipal planning committee approved building permits for 176 housing units in a Jewish neighborhood of predominantly Arab eastern Jerusalem.

The Knesset Constitution, Law and Justice Committee will vote Wednesday on a bill that would give the defense minister broader authority to issue administrative orders that bar people from certain areas and impose various other restrictions.

Netanyahu and his chief of staff, Yoav Horowitz, told the chairman of the settlement umbrella group Yesha Council, Avi Roeh, that plan would go into effect at the start of the 2018 fiscal year.

In a letter of reprimand to the Foreign Ministry in Jerusalem, a group of European nations wrote that the destruction and/or seizure of humanitarian aid violates Israel’s commitments under international law and causes suffering to Palestinian residents.

Rights groups and Palestine advocacy organisations have blasted a Maryland executive order that bars state contracts for firms that boycott Israel as part of a “legislative assault” that targets the Palestinian-led Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement.

The Israeli government has hired the Chicago-based firm Sidley Austin to prepare legal opinions and handle court proceedings.

“It seems that the recent reconciliation agreement that aims to end the division between Hamas and Fatah has ignored reforms and changes in the West Bank, focusing more on the Gaza Strip,” writes Rasha Abou Jalal.

Hamas will not dismantle its military wing, the terror organization’s leader in Gaza, Yahya Sinwar, said on Tuesday. But he added that Hamas’s weapons should be subject to the authority of the Palestine Liberation Organization, an organization dominated by the rival Fatah group.

Hamas political leader Ismail Haniyeh had a rare phone call Wednesday with Jordan’s King Abdullah II, during which the two men spoke about the ongoing reconciliation talks between rival Palestinian factions to end a decade-long conflict.

“Is it possible to discuss the sources of Israeli disunity without addressing the country’s military regime in the West Bank and siege on Gaza? Can Israelis ever accept Palestinians as part of that conversation?” asks Edo Konrad.

The announcement came a day before the state is set to provide its response to a High Court of Justice petition calling on Molcho to suspend himself over an alleged conflict of interest.