On Sunday, 15 European ambassadors presented a letter of protest to the Israeli government against plans for settlement construction in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967.
Israeli public radio reported that the ambassadors of 15 European countries and the European Union ambassador in Tel Aviv expressed their concern about the possibility of the Israeli government pushing forward construction projects in the "E1" area separating Jerusalem and the West Bank.
The radio reported that among the protesters were the ambassadors of France, Germany and Britain, who warned against undermining the possibility of negotiating a two-state solution, and hindering the achievement of a Palestinian state.
For its part, the Palestine Liberation Organization welcomed the message, and called on the European countries that signed the letter to adopt effective and serious decisions and steps on the ground against Israeli settlement.
Member of the organization’s executive committee, Hanan Ashrawi, stressed in a press statement the importance of working to deter the occupying power and remove the cover from it, and to stop its deliberate violations of international law and international legitimacy resolutions.
Ashrawi considered that Israel is based on the failure of the international community to hold it accountable and accountable for its crimes, and to ensure that the world's governments do not go out of the framework of verbal condemnations to actual and serious work.
She stressed that the implementation of these dangerous settlement plans will lead to the separation of Jerusalem from its Palestinian surroundings, the separation of the central and northern West Bank from its south, the imposition of the Greater Jerusalem project, and the undermining of any opportunity to establish a Palestinian state that is geographically viable and viable.
A settlement project in Jerusalem
On the other hand, the Palestinian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates condemned last night the approval of the Israeli municipality in Jerusalem to establish an additional settlement operating complex in the east of the city.
The Ministry considered that the Israeli move is part of the plans to Judaize Jerusalem, and constitutes a link in a series of ongoing Israeli violations "against the holy city."
The Palestinian Foreign Ministry called on the International Criminal Court to quickly open an investigation into "the crimes of the occupation, foremost of which are settlements," so as to hold the Israeli officials involved in them accountable.