Otzma Yehudit MK Limor Son Har-Melech submitted a bill on Wednesday, on the opening of the 26th Knesset, to repeal the Oslo Accords, the Hebron Agreement and the Wye River Memorandum — and to reclaim the territories Israel handed over under those agreements. Under the proposal, every agreement signed within the framework of the Oslo process, and the agreements that followed from it, would be annulled and would no longer bind the State of Israel; the legislation passed to implement them would be repealed; and the state would be required to restore the situation to what it was before, including taking back the West Bank's Areas A and B, the zones the Palestinian Authority administers today.
Son Har-Melech left no doubt about her purpose. “Thirty-three years of bloodshed, thousands murdered, countless terror attacks, and the Simchat Torah massacre should have been enough for everyone to understand: the Oslo disaster must end,” she said. The bill's explanatory notes argue that more than three decades after the signing of the Oslo Accords, and after thousands of victims of terrorism and the October 7 attacks, the time has come to repeal the agreements and reclaim the territories handed over under them.
“This bill will be placed at the doorstep of any coalition established in Israel,” she said. “Anyone who declares opposition to a Palestinian state, anyone who speaks about sovereignty and Israel's security, will have to decide whether they continue to keep alive the bloody agreements that brought this disaster upon us, or join us in historical rectification.” And she promised to keep bringing it back until it passes: “The era of empty declarations is over. It is time to repeal the Oslo Accords, dismantle the infrastructure for establishing a terror state in the heart of our land, and restore Israeli sovereignty to all parts of the homeland. We will put this bill to the test time and again, until this historical injustice is corrected.”
The Oslo Accords were signed in Washington on September 13, 1993, between Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organization, with the United States as sponsor and witness. They created the Palestinian Authority and were meant to lead within five years to a final peace settlement. The 1995 Oslo II agreement divided the West Bank into three zones: Area A, under Palestinian civil and security control; Area B, under Palestinian civil control with Israel keeping security control; and Area C, roughly 60 percent of the territory, under full Israeli control. Three decades on, that “interim” map is still the legal frame governing daily life in the West Bank — and the foundation on which the two-state idea rests.
Wednesday's filing is a renewal, not a first attempt. Son Har-Melech, a member of National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir's Otzma Yehudit party, brought the same bill forward in May 2026. It reached the Ministerial Committee for Legislation, where discussion was postponed at Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's request after Israel's National Security Council asked for more staff work and the Cabinet Secretary stressed the need to coordinate the step with the Americans. The bill now returns in a very different Knesset: Netanyahu heads a caretaker government after the October 27 elections, Gadi Eisenkot holds the mandate to try to form the next government, and no coalition exists yet to carry the measure or to block it. As a newly filed private member's bill, it still faces the ministerial committee and a series of Knesset readings and votes before it could become law — but its sponsor's stated aim is political as much as legal: to force every party onto the record.
Even parties that declare opposition to a Palestinian state do not necessarily support repealing the accords, and the filing is expected to spark diplomatic and political controversy. No Palestinian Authority or American reaction to Wednesday's filing had been published in the first reports of it. When the bill moved in May, Palestinian political analyst Abdul Majid Sweilem warned that for Israel's right wing, cancelling Oslo “is not symbolic. It is a gateway to removing any legal or political obstacle to annexing large parts of the West Bank.”
For the United States, this is America's own framework on the table. The accords were brokered by Washington and signed on the White House lawn, and the United States has treated the Palestinian Authority structure they created as the address for Palestinian governance — and for the security coordination that has kept a measure of order in the West Bank. When the bill last advanced, the delay inside Israel's government turned in part on coordinating with Washington, a reminder that a formal annulment would land immediately on America's desk. For ordinary families, the stakes are daily life itself: the Palestinian Authority runs schools, clinics, civil records and local policing for the Palestinians of Areas A and B, and annulment with no agreed replacement would throw permits, movement and basic services into uncertainty. For Israeli families, the bill's supporters promise the opposite — the end of a framework they hold responsible for decades of attacks, and sovereignty they say should never have been bargained away. Which of those futures arrives now depends on a Knesset that has only just been sworn in.
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