Benjamin Netanyahu promised to annex the territories of the West Bank when he won the elections

The Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu said Saturday that he was considering annexing the territories of the occupied West Bank if it was imposed during the parliamentary elections to be held Tuesday in Israel.

"I will apply (Israeli) sovereignty without distinguishing between the (main) blocks of colonies of isolated colonies", Netanyahu said in an interview on Israeli television Channel 12, with reference to Israeli settlements of varying size in the West Bank.

"Everyone understands that the next period will be decisive for our security and control on the key territory in Judea and Samaria ", added the Prime Minister.

The statements came before a The journalist Rina Matzliah asks why she did not order the annexation of Maale Adumim's colony and the block of colonies of Gush Etzion (between Jerusalem and Bethlehem) during his ten years as head of government.

Y Netanyahu He has answered: "Who says I'm not going to do it?"

During the interview, he also pointed out that he had managed to United States recognizes Israeli sovereignty over Syrian Golan Heights occupied by Israel since 1967. "We will continue with the next phase, yes, I will extend sovereignty", he promised.

Settlements in the Palestinian territories occupied by Israel since 1967 are illegal from the point of view of international law and a large part of the international community see it as a major obstacle to peace.

Its annexation could mean the final end of the so-called "two-state solution", that is, the creation of a Palestinian state with Israel.

Three days before the elections, Netanyahu's statements imply a new nod for conservative voters.

The prime minister had already said Friday that he had informed the US president Donald Trump that Israel would refuse, as part of a future peace plan with the Palestinians, to leave "not even one person" settlements.

During the conversation with Cbad 12In addition, Netanyahu was clearly opposed to the future creation of a Palestinian state: "A Palestinian state would endanger our existence, I have been under tremendous pressure over the past eight years, no prime minister has suffered so much pressure, we must control our destiny"he said, probably referring to the international consensus with the two-State solution.

He also stated that it will not divide Jerusalem, evacuate any community and guarantee that Israel will control the territory located in the west of Jordan, according to the newspaper Haaretz.

With information from AFP and EFE