UN envoy: Regulation Law protects 'illegal settlements'

The UN’s envoy to the Middle East, Nickolay Mladenov, on Monday evening blasted the “Regulation Law”, which legalizes the statuses of communities in Judea and Samaria and which the Knesset had earlier passed in a preliminary reading.

Mladenov claimed the legislation "has the objective of protecting illegal settlements built on private Palestinian property in the West Bank,” according to comments quoted by AFP.