CAIRO, Saturday, June 29, 2024 (WAFA) – Egypt today slammed Israel’s decision legalizing five colonial outposts in the occupied West Bank, according to the Egyptian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
The Ministry said in a press statement that it denounced the Israeli government’s decision to approve the legalisation of five colonial outposts and plan to construct thousands of new colonial units in the occupied West Bank in ongoing defiance and disregard of international law and United Nations Security Council (UNSC) resolutions, particularly UNSC Resolution 2334.
It also condemned the exploitation by Israel of its ongoing genocidal aggression on the Gaza Strip to further consolidate illegal colonial expansion and attempt to alter the legal status in the occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and noted that all of such illegal practices are intended to undermine the two-state solution, grounded in respecting the Palestinian people’s inalienable rights and deemed the only way to attain comprehensive and lasting peace.
It called on the international community to intervene to halt Israel’s ongoing illegal practices and violations of the Palestinian people’s rights and intensify their efforts to put an immediate end to the catastrophic humanitarian situation in the Strip.
Israel has proceeded with its genocidal offensive on the war-torn Strip in complete disregard of the International Court of Justice (ICJ), which ordered Israel in a legally binding decision to halt its military offensive in Rafah, which may violate its obligations under the Genocide Convention.
Israel has been waging a devastating war on Gaza since October 7, killing at least 37,834 Palestinians and injuring over 86,858 others.
Moreover, at least 10,000 people are unaccounted for, presumed dead under the rubble of their homes throughout the Strip.
Palestinian and international organizations say that the majority of those killed and wounded are women and children.
The Israeli aggression has also resulted in the forceful displacement of nearly two million people from all over the Gaza Strip, with the vast majority of the displaced forced into the densely crowded southern city of Rafah near the border with Egypt – in what has become Palestine’s largest mass exodus since the 1948 Nakba.
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