Today, Monday, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates condemned in the strongest terms the Israeli occupation authorities' publication of tenders to build more than 1,000 new settlement units in the occupied West Bank to deepen and expand settlement.

The ministry said in a statement, "The occupation authorities have disregarded all international positions and claims, signed agreements, and resolutions of international legitimacy that call for and demand the cessation of settlement activity, as it is illegal, illegitimate, and a crime that threatens to undermine the principle of the two-state solution and the opportunity to embody the Palestinian state on the ground with East Jerusalem as its capital." in accordance with United Nations resolutions.

The ministry considered the operations of deepening and expanding settlements a blatant challenge to the will of the international community and a disregard for the American and international positions that warn of its dangers on the conflict arena, as a dangerous escalation of the situation.

And it believed that the occupying state is taking advantage of double international standards to implement more of its colonial expansion plans, and to move forward with the creeping gradual annexation of the occupied West Bank.

The Ministry also saw that Israel's continued impunity and trial for its crimes encourages it to commit more of them, especially the settlements.

The Ministry reaffirmed that halting all forms of settlement is the correct approach to restoring confidence between the Palestinian and Israeli sides, as a prelude to launching a real negotiated political process that puts an end to the Israeli escalation and leads to resolving the conflict through peaceful political means.