Hezbollah has strongly condemned the Israeli Knesset’s vote on Wednesday in favor of a bill to impose “Israeli sovereignty” over the occupied West Bank and Jordan Valley, describing it as a dangerous reaffirmation of "Israel's" expansionist and colonial agenda.

In a statement issued Thursday, Hezbollah warned that allowing the Israeli occupation to continue its actions unchallenged would only embolden further aggression. “The Israeli occupation will not stop at the borders of the West Bank, al-Quds, or Palestine,” the Lebanese Resistance declared, adding that “its plans will eventually encompass the entire region.”

Hezbollah stressed that no country or group in the region is safe from what it described as a broader Israeli scheme for regional control. It linked the continued military aggression on Lebanon and Syria, including attacks, incursions, and land seizures, as well as the war on Yemen, to a unified strategy aimed at advancing the Israeli entity’s expansionist ambitions. 

It said the Knesset’s move comes amid the ongoing genocide against the Palestinian people in Gaza.

“With each passing day of the war on the Palestinian people, and the ongoing genocide, siege, and starvation campaign in Gaza, the expansionist Israeli policies and the Talmudic dreams of establishing what is called the historical homeland of the Jewish people are surfacing more blatantly,” Hezbollah's statement read.

Hezbollah urges united front to confront Israeli expansionist agenda 

Describing the vote as “a reflection of the nature of the Zionist colonial expansionist project,” Hezbollah argued that it reaffirms the entity’s long-term goals. “This entity persists in its occupation and usurpation of Palestinian land, while ignoring all international commitments and agreements,” the statement noted.

Hezbollah accused “Israel” of having used prior peace agreements merely as a smokescreen for continued expansion. “Such agreements were nothing more than a cover to expand its occupation, settlements, and Judaization of Palestinian land, and ultimately to liquidate the entire Palestinian cause,” it said.

Reaffirming its position, Hezbollah reiterated its “firm and principled support for the Palestinian people in their struggle to liberate their land,” stressing that “it is the Palestinian people themselves, through their resistance and the arms of their fighters, who will thwart all Zionist schemes.”

The Resistance party concluded by calling on Arab and Islamic nations, as well as global allies, to act decisively. “We urge all Arab and Islamic states, and all free people around the world, to shoulder their historic responsibility in supporting the Palestinian people and confronting these plans, which target everyone.”

Palestinian factions reject Israeli vote on West Bank sovereignty

In a similar context, Palestinian Resistance factions strongly denounced the Israeli Knesset’s vote. The Islamic Resistance Movement, Hamas, described the Knesset’s approval of the bill as “null and void,” stressing that the decision had no legitimacy and constituted a direct challenge to international resolutions. In a statement, Hamas urged Palestinians in the West Bank to unite and escalate resistance “in all its forms” to thwart the occupation’s plans to "annex the territory."

The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) warned that while the occupation already exerts de facto control over the territory, the formalization of this through legislation strengthens its colonial grip, expands the settler-colonial and Judaization project, and advances a policy of ghettoization and forced displacement.

The Palestinian Resistance Committees said the Knesset vote further exposes the colonial nature of the Israeli entity, adding that “the enemy’s ambitions extend beyond Palestine and target the entire region.” The committees called on Palestinians in the occupied West Bank, al-Quds, and the territories occupied in 1948 to “take the initiative, launch a popular revolution, and ignite a widespread intifada to thwart Zionist schemes.”

Fatah also rejected the bill “categorically", calling it legally and morally void. In its statement, the movement reaffirmed that the West Bank, including the eastern part of al-Quds, is occupied Palestinian land, and the Israeli occupation has no legal authority to impose sovereignty over it under any pretext.

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