RAMALLAH, Wednesday, March 6, 2024 (WAFA) – The official spokesman for the presidency Nabil Abu Rudeineh said that the approval of the Israeli occupation authorities to build 3,500 colonial units in East Jerusalem represents a clear Israeli attempt to drag the region into the comprehensive explosion that the Palestinia leadership has repeatedly warned against, stressing that the international failure, especially the American one, to punish Israel has encouraged it to persist in challenging and rejecting international legitimacy.

He added that settlement projects are condemned and rejected, and will not bring security to anyone, and the international community has confirmed that all settlements are illegal in all the occupied Palestinian territories, including East Jerusalem, especially in UN Resolution No. 2334, indicating that this Israeli decision constitutes a slap in the face of the entire world, who called for an end to settlement activity and an end to the violence of terrorist settlers.

Abu Rudeineh pointed out that these Israeli decisions come in the context of the ongoing war waged by the Israeli occupation authorities against the Palestinian people in all the occupied Palestinian territories in the Gaza Strip, the West Bank and East Jerusalem, in light of an unprecedented international silence that encourages the Israeli government to commit more crimes of genocide and ethnic cleansing against "our people, our land and our sanctities."

The official spokesman said that the international community, especially the US administration, is facing a real test to stop this Israeli aggression, and to turn words into actions, by implementing the resolutions of international legitimacy and international law, which considers all settlements illegal, and imposing strict international sanctions that prevent the occupation government from continuing with this madness, which has become a threat to security and stability not only in the region but in the entire world.

K.T