The European Union condemns the occupation’s decision to return settlers to a settlement evacuated in 2005 

Will condemnations change the Palestinian –Israeli equation!?

The European Union has affirmed that the Israeli settlements are illegal under international law, expressing its condemnation of the Israeli occupation’s decision to return settlers to the “Homesh” settlement in the northern West Bank, which the occuaption had evacuated in 2005.

In a statement today, to WAFA Palestinian News Agency the Union called on the occupation authorities to go back on this step, and the decisions it took on May 17 to establish more than 600 settlement units in existing and new settlements in the West Bank, as they are illegal under international law.

As for the European Commissioner for Crisis Management, Yaniz Lenarcic, demanded an end to the forced displacement of Palestinians, and the need to put an end to the attacks of the occupation forces and settlers against them, and to stop the demolition of their homes and facilities, noting that these attacks forced 37 families in the village of Ein Samia, near Ramallah, to leave their homes!

The decision of the occupation authorities on the 21st of last March to return the settlers to 4 settlements in the north of the West Bank, including the “Homesh” settlement, which was established in 1980 on an area of 923 dunums from the top of Jabal Al-Qubaybat, north of Nablus, was met with Palestinian rejection and warnings that it would lead to the seizure of more Palestinian lands , which will prevent the chances of establishing a Palestinian state that is geographically connected to the line of June 4, 1967.