The Palestinian Ministry of Foreign Affairs expressed its condemnation of the ongoing and escalating crimes of “deepening of settlements, seizure of land, demolition of Palestinian houses and structures, as well as the ongoing crimes of settlers against citizens, their land and property, the latest of which was the brutal attacks on Masafer Yatta by gangs of settlers, as well as sending notices of demolitions, construction halts and other violations.
In a statement, the ministry said that “these crimes are accompanied by a large-scale Israeli disinformation campaign, carried out at the official level in the occupying state, in order to remove the political, negotiated dimension of the conflict and ways to resolve it.” the occupied West Bank and the establishment of Israeli sovereignty over it.
She stressed that “Israel’s political behavior highlights the stark contradiction between the misleading official Israeli positions and statements and what the occupying forces, their bulldozers and settler militias are doing on the ground, especially given the deepening of settlements and looting.” new Palestinian lands and a series of Israeli crimes against civilians are the main cause of undermining and sabotaging the climate.” The necessary environment to launch a real and workable peace process and negotiations between the Palestinian and Israeli sides.
The ministry held the Israeli government and its various branches “full and direct responsibility for the ongoing crimes of the settlements in all their details and demanded real international pressure to force the occupying state to participate in the peace process and serious negotiations in accordance with international peace recommendations.” , and stop its constant flight from the rights to a negotiated political solution to the conflict.”
She emphasized that “the lack of international will to apply this necessary pressure gives the occupation more time to bury the opportunity to realize the two-state solution and gives it the space it wants to realize on the map of its expansionist and racist colonial interests at the expense of the lands of the State of Palestine. , so that in this situation, talk of a two-state solution becomes a path of imagination and non-existence of “realism”.
Source: El Nashra