Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich arrives for a press conference about new settlement construction near Maale Adumim in the Israel-occupied West Bank on Aug. 14, 2025. Ohad Zwigenberg/AP
Several foreign ministries in the Middle East and other regions have condemned recent Israeli government decisions affecting the occupied West Bank, describing the steps as part of what they called a broader effort to consolidate control over the territory.
In a joint statement on Feb. 23, the foreign ministers of Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Jordan, and Turkey, among others, described the changes as “wide-ranging” and said they reclassified Palestinian land as “so-called Israeli ‘state land’.”
