Palestinian presidential spokesman Nabil Abu Rudeineh said that the Israeli government's approval of the secret establishment of 22 new settlements in the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, as reported in Israeli media this evening, constitutes a dangerous escalation and a challenge to international legitimacy and international law. It is an Israeli attempt to continue dragging the region into a cycle of violence and instability.
Abu Rudeineh added that all settlement activity is illegal, stressing that this condemned and rejected decision explicitly violates all international legitimacy resolutions and international law, particularly UN Security Council Resolution 2334, which deemed all settlement activity in the Palestinian territories, including East Jerusalem, illegal and illegitimate under international law.
He continued, "The extreme right-wing government must stop destabilizing the West Bank and the entire region by insisting on continuing its criminal aggression against the Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip and its settlement expansion and aggression in the West Bank, including East Jerusalem."
Abu Rudeineh said: "We call on the US administration to intervene seriously and immediately to stop this Israeli tampering with the fate of the entire region before it's too late, and to compel it to abide by international law and cease its war on all Palestinian territories in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, including East Jerusalem."
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Abu Rudeineh: The occupation's approval of 22 new settlements in the West Bank is a dangerous escalation and a challenge to international legitimacy.