Israeli minister calls for re-occupying West Bank

[ 07/05/2011 - 04:05 PM ]

NAZARETH, (PIC)-- An Israeli minister has called on his government to re-occupy the West Bank in the event the Palestinians declared their state unilaterally without coordination with Israel.

Yisrael Katz, the minister of transport, was quoted by Haaretz on Saturday as saying that unilateral steps on the part of the Palestinian Authority ran contrary to the Olso accords, which Israel "respected".

The minister said that if the PA insisted and went ahead in such a unilateral step then Israel should re-occupy all Palestinian cities.

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