The United States voiced its opposition to the Knesset’s final vote to repeal the 2005 Disengagement Law in northern Samaria, a move that could pave the way for the reconstruction of the four West Bank settlements that were destroyed there eighteen years ago.
“We have been very clear [that] we oppose the bill,” US Ambassador to Israel Tom Nides told The Jerusalem Post ahead of the vote which was expected to take place late Monday night or on Tuesday.
He noted that the move ran counter to the understandings worked out between former prime minister Ariel Sharon and former US president George Bush in 2004, prior to Israel’s evacuation of 21 settlements in Gaza and four in northern Samaria.
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