SINGAPORE, September 22, 2025 (WAFA) – Singapore announced o Monday that it would impose sanctions on Israeli colonist leaders and recognize the Palestinian state under the right conditions, according to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs’ website.

Addressing the situation in the Middle East before the parliament, Singapore’s Foreign Minister Vivian Balakrishnan affirmed Singapore’s opposition to Israel’s colonial settlement expansion in the occupied West Bank, with reference to the so-called E1 plan.

“Singapore has consistently held that Israeli settlements are illegal under international law. We have voted in support of UN resolutions that reject Israeli settlement activities and have called on Israel to rescind all unilateral measures seeking to change the status of Jerusalem,” he said.

“We call on the Israeli government to cease settlement construction and expansion. We oppose ongoing attempts to create new facts on the ground which undermine the prospects for a two-State solution,” he added.

“Consequently, Singapore will impose targeted sanctions on the leaders of radical right-wing settler groups or organisations that have been responsible for acts of violence against Palestinians in the West Bank,” he added, and pointed out that the details would be announced at a later date.

He warned that Israeli annexation plans and colonial settlement construction in E1 “will fragment the West Bank and threaten the contiguity of Arab towns in the Occupied Palestinian Territories even further.”

On Palestinian statehood, he said that it was a matter of when, not if. But there must be an appropriate constellation of factors.

He added: “Ultimately, to resolve this longstanding conflict in a comprehensive, just, and durable manner, there needs to be a negotiated settlement which results in two States – one Israeli, one Palestinian – with their peoples living alongside each other in peace, security, and dignity.”

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