Palestinian Foreign Ministry: Acceleration of the occupation’s settlement building plans is a blatant challenge to international legitimacy resolutions

The Palestinian Foreign Ministry confirmed that the acceleration of the occupation’s settlement building plans is a blatant challenge to the resolutions of international legitimacy and the international consensus rejecting settlement as an obstacle to the establishment of a Palestinian state with Al-Quds as its capital.

The Foreign Ministry said in a statement reported by Wafa Agency yesterday, ” expanding the settlement building plans through establishing dozens of random settlement outposts aims to establish new settlements or expand existing settlements and connect them to each other, thus turning them into a huge settlement bloc that devours the majority of the area of the West Bank”.

The Foreign Ministry explained that the occupation seeks, through its settlement plans in the West Bank, to perpetuate the colonial policy of annexation aimed at liquidating the Palestinian cause and ending any opportunity to establish the Palestinian state with Al Quds as its capital. 

The ministry called on the international community to take urgent action and impose deterrent sanctions on the occupation to stop settlement expansion and comply with the will of international law.

The Israeli occupation authorities announced a few days ago that they had seized 8,159 dunums of the northern Jordan Valley land and 2,600 dunums of land east of the occupied city of Al Quds.

Souha Suleiman