Amman (UNA/Petra) – The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates strongly condemned the Israeli government’s approval of the establishment and legalization of 19 illegal colonial settlements in the occupied West Bank.
The ministry affirmed that this ratification is a blatant violation of international law and international humanitarian law, an undermining of efforts to achieve a two-state solution, and a clear violation of the inalienable right of the Palestinian people to self-determination, to end the occupation, and to establish their independent and sovereign state on the June 4, 1967 lines with occupied Jerusalem as its capital, stressing that Israel has no sovereignty over the occupied West Bank.
The official spokesperson for the Ministry, Ambassador Fouad Majali, affirmed the Kingdom’s condemnation and absolute rejection of the extremist Israeli government’s continuation of its settlement projects and plans in the occupied West Bank, which constitute a consecration of the occupation and settlement expansion, a clear undermining of the international will for the two-state solution, and a violation of international law and resolutions of international legitimacy, especially UN Security Council Resolution 2334, which condemns all Israeli measures aimed at changing the demographic composition, character and status of the Palestinian territory occupied since 1967, including East Jerusalem, in addition to the advisory opinion of the International Court of Justice, which affirmed the illegality of the Israeli occupation of the Palestinian territory and the invalidity of the construction of settlements and the measures to annex the occupied West Bank.
Al-Majali called on the international community to assume its legal and moral responsibilities, and to compel Israel to stop its dangerous escalation and its illegal and unilateral actions in the occupied West Bank, and the necessity of fulfilling the legitimate rights of the Palestinian people, foremost among them the establishment of their independent state on their national soil, as the only way to achieve a just and comprehensive peace that guarantees security and stability in the region.
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