Israeli Foreign Minister Yair Lapid sent a request to Cabinet Secretary Shalom Shlomo and government legal advisor Avichai Mandeblit, requesting an additional delay in the imminent demolition of Khan al-Ahmar, a Bedouin village in the West Bank that Israel says was built illegally. Lapid wrote that the new government had only recently assumed its duties, and “has not yet had time to study the issue in-depth and independently and without relying on the conclusions of the previous government,” given that the demolition of the village is a particularly ‘sensitive issue’; The government, therefore, requested more time to “examine the conditions necessary to vacate the site and conduct a substantial and in-depth investigation into all the legal and international consequences of this move.” For further details, click here