RAMALLAH, August 5, 2025 (WAFA) – Presidential spokesperson, Nabil Abu Rudeineh, condemned the recent statements made by the Speaker of the United States House of Representatives, Mike Johnson, in which he said that the United States recognizes Israel’s historical right to sovereignty over the West Bank, and that the hills of “Judea and Samaria” belong to the Jewish people “by right.”

Abu Rudeineh stated that these remarks, delivered in the presence of the U.S. Ambassador to Tel Aviv, contradict all international legitimacy resolutions and international law, especially United Nations Security Council Resolution 2334, which was approved by the international community, including the United States, and which considers all colonial settlement activities illegal in the occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem.

He slammed the statements as inaccurate and completely contradicting the Oslo Accords, signed in Washington, which affirmed that the political process is based on international legitimacy, chiefly the realization of an independent Palestinian state along the 1967 borders, with East Jerusalem as its capital.

Abu Rudeineh viewed these statements as a challenge and a provocation to the international community, which convened in New York to uphold the two-state solution based on international law and legitimacy — a position supported by successive U.S. administrations — and which paved the way for a series of significant international recognitions of the State of Palestine expected during the upcoming 80th session of the United Nations General Assembly in New York this September.

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