Cairo, April 12 (SANA) – The League of Arab States condemned the Israeli occupation’s approval of plans to establish 34 new settlements in the occupied West Bank, describing the step as a dangerous escalation and a blatant violation of international law and international legitimacy resolutions.
In a statement published Sunday on its official website, the Arab League’s General Secretariat said such unilateral measures deepen tensions and instability in the region.
The statement stressed that systematic settlement expansion directly undermines prospects for achieving a just and comprehensive peace, and obstructs international efforts aimed at launching a serious and credible political process based on the two-state solution.
According to the statement, such a process should lead to ending the occupation and establishing an independent Palestinian state with Jerusalem as its capital.
The Arab League warned that continued settlement policies represent a serious assault on the inalienable rights of the Palestinian people, while imposing new realities on the ground that alter the demographic and geographic character of the occupied territories in violation of international law.
The organization called on the international community to assume its legal and moral responsibilities by taking effective measures, including activating international accountability mechanisms, to halt the escalating settlement activities.
Israeli occupation authorities continue establishing settlement outposts and expanding settlements across the occupied West Bank, actions widely viewed as undermining the prospects for a sovereign Palestinian state.
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