The Knesset votes on a statement calling for "imposing Israeli sovereignty" over the West Bank.

The Israeli Knesset voted on Wednesday on a statement expressing official support for imposing Israeli sovereignty over the occupied West Bank, concluding the agenda of the final session before the Knesset goes into summer recess.

The proposal was approved by a majority of 71 Knesset members, with only 13 voting against. Members of all coalition parties voted in favor of the proposal, including representatives from the Shas party, which recently withdrew from the government.

The decision comes as part of a "proposal on the agenda" initiated by Knesset members Simcha Rothman, Orit Struck, Dan Iluz, and Oded Forer, and was approved by the Knesset Presidium on Monday.

This move comes as part of the Israeli right's efforts to establish a fait accompli in the West Bank through legislative measures, following the current government's intensification of colonization projects and measures aimed at annexing large parts of the West Bank.

Observers stated, "Although the decision is symbolic and not legally binding, its initiators are calling on the government to take action to implement sovereignty in the West Bank, with support from Knesset members in both the coalition and the opposition."

On July 19, 2024, the International Court of Justice affirmed that the Israeli occupation of the Palestinian territories is illegal.

In its advisory opinion on the legal implications of Israeli practices and their impact on the occupied territories, the Court affirmed that Israel must cease its occupation and end its illegal presence in the occupied Palestinian territory as soon as possible.

The court's opinion stated that Israel must immediately cease any new settlement activity and remove all settlers from the occupied Palestinian territory.

On September 18, 2024, the United Nations General Assembly adopted, by majority vote, a draft resolution demanding that Israel, the occupying power, end its "illegal presence in the occupied Palestinian territory" within 12 months, based on the advisory opinion issued by the International Court of Justice.

On 23 December 2016, the Security Council adopted Resolution 2334, which states that Israeli settlements constitute a "flagrant violation of international law."

The resolution stipulated that all settlement activities in the occupied Palestinian territory, including East Jerusalem, "must cease immediately and completely."