The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates strongly warned against the dangers of the Israeli occupation adopting the name "Judea and Samaria" instead of the West Bank.

The ministry condemned, in a statement issued on Sunday evening, the approval by the so-called Ministerial Committee for Legislation Affairs in the occupying state of a draft law to adopt the name "Judea and Samaria" instead of the West Bank, and considered it a dangerous escalation in the illegal unilateral occupation measures, a prelude to completing the annexation of the West Bank and imposing Israeli law on it by force of occupation, and a systematic undermining of the opportunity to embody the Palestinian state on the ground and resolve the conflict through peaceful political means.

The Ministry stressed that this project and other occupation measures will not establish a right for Israel in the land of the State of Palestine, and it is invalid, illegitimate, a flagrant violation of international law and United Nations resolutions, and a blatant threat to the security and stability of the region and the world.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates called for urgent international intervention to stop the occupation's attempts to change the political, legal and geographical reality of the internationally recognized State of Palestine. It also called on all countries to link the level of their relationship with Israel to the extent of their government's commitment to international law and the extent of its compliance with international legitimacy resolutions.