A judicial decision by the Israeli Supreme Court confirmed that Israel’s rule over the West Bank amounts to a temporary military occupation supervised by army generals, and not a permanent civilian annexation governed by Israeli civil servants.
That is why the Israeli Minister outlined in his speech a “carefully coordinated” program to remove power from the hands of the Israeli Occupation army’s generals and, instead, hand it over to civilians working under the Ministry of Defence. Parts of the plan have already been gradually introduced and some powers were transferred to civilians over the past 18 months.