The Israeli defence minister has announced that Israel’s military campaign in the occupied West Bank — which includes the use of tanks that change the geography and topography of refugee camps — will last until the end of 2025, Al Jazeera’s Nour Odeh reports.

Israel’s presence in the occupied West Bank has been deemed illegal, so the fact that it’s working in the territory as if it were Israel is already problematic. But in addition to all of that, there are Israeli settler leaders announcing coalitions, talking about imposing sovereignty in the occupied West Bank.

That takes us back to annexation, which is at the heart of the Israeli government programme.

There have been a lot of steps taken under the fog of conflict — a lot of legislation and orders — basically appropriating thousands of acres of Palestinian land, issuing demolition orders, taking over land and destroying Palestinian roads that connect Palestinian villages.

This is all basically to serve the strategic goal of annexation.

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