Israeli Settlement Policies Draw Criticism from US and Opposition Leaders

The US has summoned Israel's ambassador to the State Department in protest of the Knesset's passage of a law that will allow the resettlement of evacuated areas of the northern West Bank. The law repeals the clauses of the 2005 Disengagement Law that banned Israelis from the area where the settlements of Homesh, Ganim, Kadim, and Sa-Nur once stood. The US is "extremely troubled" by the legislation, which it says is inconsistent with the commitments Israel made to the US and participating countries at the Sharm el-Sheikh regional summit on Sunday. The move marks a further deterioration in relations between the Biden administration and the hard-line Netanyahu government.