- The Israeli minister, the project, will “bury” the idea of the Palestinian State.
- The UN Warns Plan will be fragmented to West in Isolated Eats.
- 700,000 Israeli settlers live among 2.7 million Palestinians in the area.
The UN Human Rights Office said Friday that an Israeli plan to build to build thousands of new houses between an Israeli settlement in the West Bank and near East Jerusalem was illegal according to international law, and put at risk of forced eviction, which described as a war crime.
On Thursday, the Minister of Finance of Extreme Right Israeli, Bezalel Smotrich, promised to press a long -standing settlement project, saying that the measure would “bury” the idea of a Palestinian state.
The spokesman for the UN Rights Office said the Plan would divide the West Bank into isolated enclaves and that it was “a war crime for an occupation power to transfer its own civilian population to the territory it occupies.”
Around 700,000 Israeli settlers live among 2.7 million Palestinians in the West Bank and East Jerusalem. Israel annexed Jerusalem in 1980, a movement not recognized by most countries, but has not formally extended sovereignty in the West Bank.
Most of the world’s powers say that the expansion of settlements erodes the viability of a solution of two states by breaking the territory that the Palestinians seek as part of an independent future state.
The plan of two states provides for a Palestinian state in East Jerusalem, the West Bank and Gaza, existing together with Israel, which captured the three territories in the Middle East War of 1967.
Israel cites historical and biblical ties with the area and says that the agreements provide strategic depth and security, and that the West Bank is “disputed”, not “occupied.”
