Palestinian Ministry of Foreign Affairs calls on the international community to assume its responsibilities to stop the seizure of lands in Masafer Yatta.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates called on the international community to shoulder its responsibilities to stop the occupation's seizure of lands in Masafer Yatta, south of Hebron.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs confirmed in a statement, Sunday evening, that it views with great concern the Israeli occupation authorities’ action to deliver notices to seize hundreds of dunams and vital roads for the benefit of colonial expansion in Masafer Yatta. It considered this an insistence on targeting the area to deepen colonialism and empty it of its original owners, in a manner that coincides with the continuation of the crimes of the gradual annexation of large parts of the occupied West Bank, especially since the seizure notices sever the connections of Masafer and isolate Palestinian villages from each other, and deprive Palestinian citizens of access to the largest area of their agricultural lands and pastures, while these notices allow for the connection of settlements and colonial outposts to each other.

The ministry stressed that this constitutes a flagrant violation of international law, international legitimacy resolutions, and the Geneva Conventions, in an attempt to alter the historical, political, and legal reality in the occupied West Bank.

It stated that it is following up on these violations with other countries and components of the international community, warning of their grave repercussions for the entire region, and called for genuine international intervention to halt their implementation and all illegal unilateral measures taken by the occupation.