- The Israeli Minister carried out a project of “burial” project the idea of the Palestinian state.
- The UN warns that the plan will fragment the West Bank into isolated enclaves.
- 700,000 Israeli settlers live among 2.7 million Palestinians in the region.
On Friday, the United Nations Human Rights Office said that an Israeli plan to build to build thousands of new houses between an Israeli colony in the West Bank and to the Middle East was illegal under international law, and would put the Palestinians nearby in danger of forced expulsion, which it described as a war crime.
The Israeli Minister for Far -Right Finance, Bezalel Smotrich, swore on Thursday to put pressure on a long -delayed colony project, saying that this decision “buries” the idea of a Palestinian state.
The spokesperson for the United Nations Office said that the plan would divide the West Bank into isolated enclaves and that it was “a war crime for a power occupying to transfer its own civilian population to the territory it occupies”.
About 700,000 Israeli settlers live among 2.7 million Palestinians in the West Bank and East Jerusalem. Israel annexed Jerusalem-East in 1980, a decision not recognized by most countries, but it did not officially extend sovereignty over the West Bank.
Most global powers say that the expansion of regulations erodes the viability of a two -state solution by breaking the territory that Palestinians seek within the framework of a future independent state.
The two-state plan provides for a Palestinian state in East Jerusalem, in the West Bank, and Gaza, existing side by side with Israel, which captured the three territories of the Middle East war in 1967.
Israel cites historical and biblical ties with the region and says that the colonies provide strategic depth and security, and that the West Bank is “disputed”, not “occupied”.
