'De facto annexation': Israel to shift civilian enforcement in West Bank from army to police

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

50% : However, Israel Hayom reported on Friday that the army welcomed the move and had been pushing for it for weeks.
48% : Defence Minister Israel Katz said on Friday that he had instructed the military to draft a plan to transfer enforcement powers for civilian matters in the occupied West Bank from the army to the police.
47% : Katz said it was appropriate for the police to oversee civilian affairs in the West Bank, arguing that the force performs that role "in every other place in the State of Israel".
44% : Israel is preparing to replace the army in the West Bank with civilian police forces, in a move seen as further advancing the annexation of the occupied Palestinian territory.
43% : Katz's statement referred to the entire West Bank, without distinguishing between Areas A and B, where the Palestinian Authority handles civilian affairs, and Area C, where Israel exercises civilian authority under the Oslo Accords.
41% : Israel has never formally annexed the West Bank, which has been under Israeli military occupation since 1967.
39% : Israel Ganz, head of the Regional Binyamin Council in the West Bank, said Katz's statement should be followed by the cancellation of the Oslo Accords and the imposition of "full Israeli sovereignty" over the occupied territory.

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