RAMALLAH, Saturday, March 9, 2024 (WAFA) – The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates today said that the Israeli far right and its colonists daily challenge the international will for peace, calling on the international community to translate the two-state solution from consensus into action. 

The Ministry highlighted that they (Israeli far right and its colonists) are racing against time in their attempts to change the existing historical, political and legal reality in the West Bank to put obstacles to the establishment of an independent, viable, geographically contiguous and sovereign Palestinian state.

The Foreign Ministry, in a statement, called for translating the international and American positions and implementing the two-state solution into practical steps and taking real measures that would ensure its implementation on the ground.

The Ministry affirmed the necessity of accelerating the recognition of the State of Palestine, enabling it to obtain full membership in the United Nations, and exerting real pressure on the occupying state to restrain the colonists.

"Imposing deterrent international sanctions on the entire colonial system plays a role in fortifying the opportunity for a political solution to the conflict and not wasting it, and provides the protection required for the two-state solution, in order to achieve security and stability in the region and the world," the Ministry added.

It also strongly condemned the colonists’ violations and crimes against the Palestinian people and their proprieties, the latest of which was the military incursion of Bab al-Rahma cemetery, where they vandalized graves and their headstones. The Ministry also denounced the daily attacks of colonists on civilians and their homes in Masafer Yatta with the aim of displacing them from their lands.

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