RIYADH, Saudi Arabia — Nearly 20 countries on Monday condemned Israel’s recent moves to tighten its control over the occupied West Bank, characterizing them as attempts to annex the territory and undermine Palestinian statehood. Israel has approved a series of initiatives this month backed by far-right ministers, including launching a process to register land in the West Bank as “state property” and allowing Israelis to purchase land there directly. The moves “are part of a clear trajectory that aims to change the reality on the ground and to advance unacceptable de facto annexation”, the 18 mostly European or Muslim-majority countries […]... Keep on reading: Nearly 20 nations slam Israel’s ‘de facto annexation’ of West Bank