The parliamentary vote notably paves the way for Israeli authorities to formally allow settlers to return to Homesh, the only one of the four sites whose residents were forcibly removed before their homes were demolished.

Citizens International agrees with Bar Council’s position that upholding international law is important, and asks the council to extend this to the plight of the Palestinian people, too.

Bezalel Smotrich already faced international rebuke in early March after calling for a Palestinian town in the occupied West Bank to be 'wiped out'.

The parties also reconfirmed commitments made at a meeting in Aqaba last month, including an Israeli pledge to stop discussion of any new settlement units for four months.

The protests in Israel have very little to do with the Israeli occupation and apartheid, and are hardly concerned with Palestinian rights.

Lloyd Austin says the US remains 'firmly opposed to any acts that could trigger more insecurity, including settlement expansion and inflammatory rhetoric'.

The Jenin raid was the latest in a string of deadly military operations in the Palestinian territory, which Israel has occupied since the Six-Day War of 1967.

Bezalel Smotrich says he chose his words poorly.

This includes an Israeli commitment 'to stop discussion of any new settlement units for four months' and to not legalise any unofficial wildcat outposts for six months.

It says that some of these communities have existed for decades.

The Khan al-Ahmar community, on a strategic highway east of Jerusalem, was slated for demolition in 2018 after a ruling that it was built without Israeli permits.

A 13-year-old Palestinian boy shot and wounded a father and son in east Jerusalem hours after a gunman killed seven outside a synagogue.