JEDDAH, April 10, 2026 (WAFA) - The General Secretariat of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) has condemned in the strongest terms the approval by the Israeli occupation government of 34 new colonial settlements in the occupied West Bank, in flagrant violation of international law and relevant UN Security Council resolutions, particularly Resolution 2334.

The General Secretariat emphasized that Israel, the occupying power, has no sovereignty over the occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Al-Quds (Jerusalem), and that all its measures aimed at changing the geographic and demographic reality there are null and void under international law.

The General Secretariat also warned of the gravity of the escalation of settlement policies, land confiscation, settler terrorism and attempts to annex and impose so-called Israeli sovereignty on the occupied West Bank, stressing that this aims to undermine the two-state solution and violate the rights of the Palestinian people, including their right to self-determination and the establishment of their independent state on the 4 June 1967 borders, with Al-Quds Al-Sharif (Jerusalem) as its capital.

At the same time, the General Secretariat called on the international community to shoulder its responsibilities towards putting an end to all Israeli crimes and violations against the Palestinian people, their land, and holy sites.

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