Foreign Affairs and Expatriates Ministry today decried the Israeli government’s plan for thousands of new settler units in the occupied West Bank. The Ministry denounced in a press statement the Israeli government’s intention to announce later this month the building and planning of thousands of new settler units in the colonial settlements in the occupied West Bank, and considered this a crime and a gross violation of international law as well as of United Nations resolutions and an official persistence in proceeding with the annexation of the West Bank. It considered this plan puts the US administration along with its position on the two-state solution to a serious test while calling on the US to take a firm stand to prevent Israel from implementing this plan. Israel uses the Jewish nationalist name ‘Judea and Samaria’ to refer to the occupied West Bank to reinforce its bogus claims to the territory and to give them a veneer of historical and religious legitimacy. There are over 700,000 Israeli settlers living in colonial settlements in the West Bank and East Jerusalem in violation of international law.
Source: En – Palestine news & Information Agency – WAFA