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France, united kingdom 19 countries:
Israel approved this Wednesday, August 20, a construction project of 3,400 dwellings in occupied Wednesday, August 20, August 20. In addition, Except East Jerusalem. Meanwhile, occupied and annexed by the Hebrew State, around 500,000 Israelis are installed in colonies that the UN judges illegal with regard to international law.
The major colonization plan in occupied West Bank approved this Wednesday. Similarly, August 20 by Israel is “unacceptable” and represents “a violation of international law”, condemned Thursday 21 countries, including the United Kingdom and France, in a joint statement.
“We condemn this decision. Furthermore, ask for the greatest firmness that it be immediately canceled,” added the foreign ministers in these countries.
The key construction project of 3. For example, 400 homes in the West Bank, a territory occupied by Israel since 1967, should cut this Palestinian territory in two, compromising any territorial continuity of a possible Palestinian state.
“Never been more distant” from the two -state solution
The measures taken by the Israeli government “compromise our common desire to ensure security. prosperity in the Middle East”, denounce the leaders of diplomacy in the 21 countries, including Canada, Spain, Italy. The head of diplomacy of the European Union, Kaja Kallas, is also signatory to the text.
They call on the Israeli government to “end the construction of colonies”. to “lift the financial restrictions imposed on the Palestinian authority”.
In London, Foreign Office summoned Israel’s ambassador on Thursday, Tzipi Hotovely. The project was also denounced by the UN the day before.
“We have never been further from the two -state solution than we are today. ” said Philippe Lazzarini, the head of the United Nations Agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) on Thursday.
The Israeli government “makes decisions that will make more. more impossible to make the creation of these two states,” he france, united kingdom 19 countries deplored.
Colonization since 1967
Excluding East Jerusalem. occupied and annexed by Israel, some three million Palestinians live in the West Bank alongside around 500,000 Israelis installed in colonies that the UN judges illegal with regard to international law.
The colonization of the West Bank. border of Jordan, continued under all Israeli governments, from the left and on the right, since 1967.
It was clearly intensified under the current government of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. particularly since the start of the war in Gaza, triggered after the unprecedented attack on the Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas in Israel on October 7, 2023.
The clashes, sometimes deadly, between local Palestinian populations, army and Jewish settlers have multiplied there. The Israeli authorities strongly restrict the movements of the Palestinians of West Bank. tributaries of license to cross the control points and enter into East Jerusalem or in Israel.
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