The Palestinian Vice President, Hussein Al-Sheikh, announced today, Tuesday, an official decision issued by the Palestinian leadership to absolutely forbid dealing with all measures and decisions approved by the occupation's mini-cabinet, 'the Cabinet,' regarding the occupied territories in the West Bank. This step comes in response to recent Israeli policies aimed at making radical changes in the legal and civil reality, serving to strengthen settlement control and undermine Palestinian sovereignty.
Al-Sheikh affirmed that the leadership has issued strict and severe instructions to all security agencies and civil institutions in the State of Palestine regarding the necessity of rejecting these measures and not dealing with them in any way. The instructions emphasized full adherence to the applicable Palestinian laws, based on international agreements signed between the two sides, as the sole reference for institutional and field work.
The Palestinian Presidency considered the recent Israeli decisions, especially the annulment of the Jordanian law that prevented the sale of land to Jews, as a clear undermining of all binding understandings and agreements. Al-Sheikh described these moves as a dangerous escalation directly aimed at destroying the two-state solution and dragging the entire region into a new spiral of tension and political and security instability.
Measures taken by the occupation government include declassifying land records in the West Bank, which allows for the disclosure of Palestinian owners' names and facilitates the leakage of land to settlement associations. Palestinian sources believe that this step aims to legitimize settlement expansion and provide legal cover for systematic seizure operations of private and public properties.
In a related context, the occupation's decisions included stripping the Palestinian municipality of Hebron of its building permit powers and transferring them to the so-called Israeli 'Civil Administration.' This measure is a blatant violation of the 'Hebron Protocol' signed in 1997, which regulates civil and security powers in the city, threatening to change the demographic and geographical identity of the city's historic heart.
Hussein Al-Sheikh called on the international community to take urgent action and adopt a firm stance to confront the aggression of the extremist right-wing government in Tel Aviv and its racist policies. He indicated that international silence encourages the occupation to continue implementing its plans aimed at the de facto annexation of the West Bank, coinciding with the ongoing genocide against the Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip.
Official data indicates that this legal escalation is accompanied by a bloody field escalation in the West Bank, where at least 1112 martyrs have fallen since the start of the widespread aggression, in addition to thousands of injured and detained. Observers believe that these administrative and legal measures are nothing but a final prelude to officially announcing the annexation of the West Bank and imposing full Israeli sovereignty over it.
We have issued instructions to security and civil institutions to reject the recent occupation decisions and adhere to Palestinian law and signed agreements.
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Palestinian Presidency Forbids Dealing with 'Cabinet' Decisions and Issues Strict Instructions to its Institutions