RAMALLAH, August 11, 2011 (WAFA) - Hanan Ashrawi, PLO Executive Committee member, Thursday warned that Israel’s unilateral measures in Jerusalem are a violation of international resolutions and will destroy the peace process.

Commenting on Israeli plans to build thousand of housing units in East Jerusalem, Ashrawi said that “this new crime which Israel is seeking to carry out in full view of the world, aims at changing the city’s demographic, cultural and historical reality, terminating Palestinian presence in the city and expelling its original residents without accountability from the international community.”

She said the Israeli housing problem resulted from investing the money to serve settlements and occupation projects instead of treating and resolving the social injustice.

“Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who uses radical ideology to serve his illegal expansionist goals on the Palestinian land, will create a new crisis, which will raise tension by rehousing some of the Israeli population on Palestinian land,” she said.

M.G./M.A.