The Palestinian presidency warns of Israeli settlement plans to seize 100 points in the West Bank

The Palestinian presidency warned on Wednesday of the danger of settlement plans prepared by settlement movements in the West Bank with the support and encouragement of the Israeli occupation government, which aims to seize 100 points throughout the West Bank to cancel the Oslo Accords.

The Presidency said, in a press statement today reported by the Palestinian News and Information Agency “Wafa”, that “these plans represent a dangerous escalation and continuation of the policy of annexation and settlement, a flagrant violation of international law and international legitimacy resolutions, and an insistence on the part of the extreme right-wing occupation government to destroy any opportunity to achieve peace and stability.”

She added, “The occupation government continues the policy of forcefully imposing facts on Palestinian land, in blatant defiance of the will of the international community, seeking to undermine the two-state solution and undermining all international efforts aimed at ending the occupation.”

The Presidency affirmed that “all settlement activities in the occupied Palestinian territory, including East Jerusalem, are illegal and invalid under international law, and are a flagrant violation of United Nations resolutions, most notably Security Council Resolution No. 2334. They will not grant the occupation any rights or sovereignty over the Palestinian land, and will not change the legal and historical status of the occupied territories.”

The Palestinian presidency held the occupation government fully responsible for the dangerous repercussions of its continued settlement and aggressive policies, and for any escalation that the region may witness as a result of its insistence on defying international legitimacy.

It called on the international community, led by the US administration, to “take immediate action and take concrete, deterrent measures to force the occupation government to stop all its settlement activities, and to compel it to respect international law.”