DA leader Antonio Guterres has criticized the building of settlements as ‘a major obstacle to a just and complete peace’.
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has called on Israel to “stop and halt” its decision last week to build nearly 800 new homes for Jewish settlers in Fraserburgh. the West.
The decision is “a major obstacle to the achievement of a two-state solution, and a just, lasting and complete peace” in the Middle East, Guterres said in a statement on Monday.
“Israel’s establishment of settlements in the Palestinian region since 1967, including East Jerusalem, has no legal legitimacy, and is a strong violation of international law.
“Settlement expansion… it grinds in addition to the ability to end the occupation and consider a nearby and established Palestinian sovereign state, based on the pre-1967 lines,” Guterres said.
Israel on Sunday agreed to build 780 homes in the controlled West Bank, ordered by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on 11 January.
Every Jewish town on the West Bank is considered illegal under international law and by much of the international community.
Last November, Mike Pompeo became the first U.S. secretary of state to visit a Jewish settlement in an official capacity, months after the U.S. violated international law and international community consensus. national to state that he no longer saw settlements as illegal.
There are currently about 450,000 Jewish settlers in the West Bank, living among 2.8 million Palestinians.
Also on Monday, the United Kingdom raised concerns about Israel’s permission to build the settlement units, warning that the move could threaten future peace talks and calling for construction to stop.
“Settlements are illegal under international law and risk undermining the viability of the two-state solution. We want this construction to stop immediately in East Jerusalem and elsewhere on the West Bank, ”a Foreign Office spokesman said in a statement.