<p class="title">Israel's Parliament on Tuesday gave final approval to legislation aimed at making it more difficult for the government to hand the Palestinians parts of Jerusalem under any future peace deal.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The bill, approved by a 64 to 51 vote, is the latest blow to remaining hopes for a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Formulated by Shuli Moalem-Refaeli of the far-right Jewish Home party, it comes weeks after US President Donald Trump's decision to recognise Jerusalem as Israel's capital sparked deadly protests in the Palestinian territories.</p>.<p class="bodytext">It determines that any ceding of lands considered by Israel to be part of Jerusalem would necessitate a two-thirds majority vote in Parliament - 80 out of 120 members of the Knesset.</p>.<p class="bodytext">It also enables changing the municipal definition of Jerusalem, which means that sectors of the city "could be declared separate entities," a statement from Parliament read.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Israeli right-wing politicians have spoken of unilaterally breaking off overwhelmingly Palestinian areas of the city in a bid to increase its Jewish majority.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Israel occupied east Jerusalem and the West Bank in 1967. It later annexed east Jerusalem in a move never recognised by the international community.</p>.<p class="bodytext">It claims all of Jerusalem as its united capital, while the Palestinians see the eastern sector as the capital of their future state.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The issue is among the most contentious in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"We've ensured the unity of Jerusalem," Education Minister Naftali Bennett, who heads Jewish Home, said after the vote.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"The Mount of Olives, the Old City and the City of David will forever remain ours," he wrote on Twitter.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Dov Henin of the Opposition's mainly Arab Joint List said the new law should be called "the law to prevent peace".</p>.<p class="bodytext">"Without an agreement on Jerusalem there will be no peace," he said ahead of the final vote. </p>.<p class="bodytext">Trump's December 6 decision upended decades of precedent and broke with international consensus, but maintains that Jerusalem's final status would have to be decided in negotiations between the two sides.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The new law is, however, not necessarily definitive. It can be changed by a regular parliamentary majority of 61.</p>
<p class="title">Israel's Parliament on Tuesday gave final approval to legislation aimed at making it more difficult for the government to hand the Palestinians parts of Jerusalem under any future peace deal.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The bill, approved by a 64 to 51 vote, is the latest blow to remaining hopes for a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Formulated by Shuli Moalem-Refaeli of the far-right Jewish Home party, it comes weeks after US President Donald Trump's decision to recognise Jerusalem as Israel's capital sparked deadly protests in the Palestinian territories.</p>.<p class="bodytext">It determines that any ceding of lands considered by Israel to be part of Jerusalem would necessitate a two-thirds majority vote in Parliament - 80 out of 120 members of the Knesset.</p>.<p class="bodytext">It also enables changing the municipal definition of Jerusalem, which means that sectors of the city "could be declared separate entities," a statement from Parliament read.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Israeli right-wing politicians have spoken of unilaterally breaking off overwhelmingly Palestinian areas of the city in a bid to increase its Jewish majority.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Israel occupied east Jerusalem and the West Bank in 1967. It later annexed east Jerusalem in a move never recognised by the international community.</p>.<p class="bodytext">It claims all of Jerusalem as its united capital, while the Palestinians see the eastern sector as the capital of their future state.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The issue is among the most contentious in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"We've ensured the unity of Jerusalem," Education Minister Naftali Bennett, who heads Jewish Home, said after the vote.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"The Mount of Olives, the Old City and the City of David will forever remain ours," he wrote on Twitter.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Dov Henin of the Opposition's mainly Arab Joint List said the new law should be called "the law to prevent peace".</p>.<p class="bodytext">"Without an agreement on Jerusalem there will be no peace," he said ahead of the final vote. </p>.<p class="bodytext">Trump's December 6 decision upended decades of precedent and broke with international consensus, but maintains that Jerusalem's final status would have to be decided in negotiations between the two sides.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The new law is, however, not necessarily definitive. It can be changed by a regular parliamentary majority of 61.</p>