Har-Melech is a member of far-right National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir’s Otzma Yehudit [Mostafa Alkharouf/Anadolu via Getty Images]
An Israeli ministerial committee is set to review a far-right-sponsored bill aimed at repealing the 1993 Oslo Accords on Sunday.
The bill, submitted by the Knesset Deputy Speaker Limor Son Har-Melech, would revoke the historic agreement signed by former prime minister Yitzhak Rabin and Palestinian Liberation Organisation leader Yasser Arafat.
The agreement is the cornerstone of the two-state solution, the main peace initiative that sought to bring an end to Israel’s occupation of the Palestinian territories and create an independent Palestinian State.
Har-Melech, who is a member of far-right National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir’s Otzma Yehudit (Jewish Power), said in a post on X: “We promised to prevent the establishment of a Palestinian state, and now it is time to encourage settlement in Areas A and B and cancel the disastrous Oslo Accords.”
She added that this bill was “a first and necessary step” in overturning the current governing arrangement of the occupied West Bank.
Under the Oslo Accords, governance over the West Bank is divided into three zones, Areas A, B and C.
Area A is under de facto full control of the Palestinian Authority, which itself was set up as part of the Oslo process, though it is still subject to Israeli military and financial control.
Area B is also officially administered by the PA but Israel retains control of its security, with Area C fully administered by Israeli forces.
Despite the continued existence of the Oslo framework and the governing arrangement in the occupied West Bank, the Israeli government has in recent years sought to undermine the accords, approving a record number of illegal settlement projects in the territory, a policy that goes back decades.
The process of settlement expansion, spearheaded by Israel’s far-right and settlers in the government, is also part of attempts to annex the territory, which saw approval in a symbolic Knesset vote in 2025.
As far back as 2001, current Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was caught on camera boasting about “putting an end” to the Oslo Accords.
More recently in a press conference in Tel Aviv, Netanyahu said he was “proud” of preventing the establishment of a Palestinian state.
The Knesset also voted in favour of a resolution rejecting Palestinian statehood in 2024.
If the bill seeking to repeal the Oslo Accords gets the support of the Ministerial Committee for Legislation, it can then be put into the Knesset Praesidium for approval, which, if passed, allows it to have Knesset readings, votes and be scrutinised by Knesset committees.
